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 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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Salary jump key for MBA rankings too sadly.
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I got called in to the dean’s office at Dartmouth when I wrote down my projected year one salary as 0. We talked explicitly about how my decision would hurt the school’s rankings. The school was obsessed with rankings.
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