• U.S. News Depends On its College Rankings. What Happens When Universities Don't Want To Be Ranked?

    1 month ago - By Observer

    For decades, schools, deans and even students have called for an overhaul of the annual U.S. News & World Report university rankings, to no avail.
    But in the past few months, a series of public statements from top-ranked universities has begun to finally pose a real threat to U.S. News, which has been the dominant player in the rankings industry for nearly 40 years.
    In November, Yale Law School , which has been listed as the top law school by U.S. News for three decades, announced it would no longer submit data for the rankings. Citing U.S. News's discounting of public interest careers and...
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