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It’s September, and you know what that means: the leaves are changing, the school year is beginning, and the U.S. News and World Report has released its annual Best College Rankings. While these rankings have frequently drawn criticism and complaint, students still turn to them for guidance and colleges are quick to trumpet top positions […]
On a recent list of college majors that pay the most right out of college, engineering fields fill eight of the top ten slots. It’s no surprise, then, that engineering is among the top six most popular college majors. While not everyone has the technical, quantitative, and computer skills necessary to successfully pursue an engineering […]
U.S. News & World Report recently released their Best Graduate Schools 2024 edition, which includes numerous rankings by category: Best Business Schools, Best Law Schools, Best Medical Schools: Research, Best Engineering Schools, and Best Education Schools, to name a few. 2024 BEST BUSINESS SCHOOLS (TOP 10) Stanford University #1 (tie) University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) #1 […]
Every September, as students settle back into fall routines, the new school year ushers in a fresh batch of college rankings. Described by U.S. News and World Report as “a tool for understanding academic quality,” rankings are the product of research, data collection, coding, analysis, and debate. In recent years, the legitimacy of these rankings […]
In July 2022, we provided a deep dive into college rankings and the investigation into the accuracy of Columbia’s self-reported data for U.S. News and World Report (USNWR). We get many questions about how both USNWR and The Forbes rankings are calculated. Last year’s controversy over accusations from a Columbia professor led the university to […]
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