The people who create college rankings have to cook the books for their algorithms to work at all. Each college's score is the sum of n weighted parameters. But how can they choose the weights? The only possible way is to tweak them till the order is what they already expected.
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the column i always cared about in us news was the rating by college faculty peers. many schools in the 8-20 category dropped right out when sorted this way, and then berkeley, ucla, michigan, rice, u chicago etc - actual academies - would be in their rightful position
If you wanted to detect which colleges were gaming the rankings, this diff would be a good place to start.
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The downstream effects are even worse then you think. One of the reasons schools don’t promote starting startups is that year 1 salary is low. And that’s a big factor in WSJ and US New World Report rankings factors.
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That's astounding if true. How do you know this?
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