How do the U.S. News rankings compare with other graduate school rankings?
First, there aren’t a lot of graduate school rankings. The National Research Council (NRC) last released rankings of graduate programs in September 1995. The NRC has been collecting data at 10-year intervals and is currently evaluating various methodologies for its next study. Also under consideration is the question of whether the NRC will publish rankings or adopt another format for presenting its evaluations. Researchers Evan Rogers and Sharon J. Rogers have compared rankings produced by the 1995 NRC study with those U.S. News has developed, looking specifically at the U.S. News rankings based on peer assessment data only. They concluded that there was “a very high positive association between U.S. News peer assessment scores and rankings and those reported by the NRC.” Their article in the May 1997 issue of the American Association of Higher Education Bulletin further discusses this topic. Some other organizations compile business school rankings. Our ranking methodology differs, g
