Why doesn’t the Carnegie Foundation rank institutions according to teaching quality?
Classification is different from ranking, and the Carnegie Foundation has never been in the rankings business. Teaching quality is very important, and it is at the heart of many Carnegie Foundation programs. But it is not something that can be reliably assessed at a distance on the basis of available quantitative measures such as faculty salaries or instructional expenditures. Apart from the question of appropriate measures, it is not clear that teaching quality is best assessed at the institutional level, rather than at the department or classroom level.
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