Whats Wrong With College Rankings?
Education professionals often profess to loathe college rankings. In fact, a growing number of colleges are now refusing to supply data to U.S. News. Sometimes, one suspects, it’s because their school didn’t rank as well as they thought it should. Yet some of the non-participants fared very well in the rankings fray. . There are, indeed, many legitimate reasons to question the value of college rankings. Here are a few of them: Can Colleges be Ranked At All? A modern college or university tends to be an incredibly diverse and multifaceted group of people, activities, and goals. Basic instruction is taking place, but also research, athletics, extracurriculars, community interaction, artistic performance, socializing, and many other activities. A college can be distinguished from its peers by many factors: faculty, financial strength, name recognition, success and satisfaction of its graduates, the quality of its incoming students, its ability to succeed with marginal students, its physic
