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  2. Criticism of college and university rankings in North America

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    Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.

  3. Why Some of the Best Colleges Challenge Low Tolerance Grades

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    A student walks through Library Walk at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, US, on Sunday April 7, 2024. Credit - Joe Buglewicz—Bloomberg/Getty Images

  4. U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking - Wikipedia

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    The question of college rankings and their impact on admissions gained greater attention in March 2007, when Sarah Lawrence College outgoing president Michele Tolela Myers, wrote an op-ed [32] that U.S. News & World Report, when not given SAT scores for a university, chooses to simply rank the college with an invented SAT score of approximately ...

  5. Niche (company) - Wikipedia

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    Niche.com, formerly known as College Prowler, [1] [2] is an American company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that runs a ranking and review site. [2] The company was founded by Luke Skurman in 2002 as a publisher of print guidebooks on US colleges, but is now an online resource providing information on K–12 schools, colleges, cities, neighborhoods, and companies across the United ...

  6. Do college rankings do more harm than good?

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    The most popular college rankings, by U.S. News & World Report, weigh a long list of factors, including graduation rates, debt taken out by the typical student and the relative prestige of a ...

  7. U.S. News & World Report's list of best colleges for 2015 ...

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    U.S. News & World Report released the 30th edition of its flagship Best Colleges rankings on September 9th, which measure academic excellence. The 2015 edition of Best Colleges includes data on ...

  8. Fiske Guide to Colleges - Wikipedia

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    The Fiske Guide to Colleges is an American media company that publishes, inter alia, descriptions, ratings, and analysis for more than 320 U.S. colleges and universities.It is the best-selling college guide in the United States, [1] although it remains significantly less well-known than rankings such as the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings.

  9. Gourman Report - Wikipedia

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    The Gourman Report (ISBN 9780679783749) is Dr. Jack Gourman's ranking of undergraduate, professional, and graduate programs in American and International Universities.It has been widely criticized for not disclosing criteria or ranking methods, [1] [2] as well as for reporting statistically impossible data, such as no ties among schools, school rankings in each subcategory (administration ...