Grad Rankings: Share Your Feelings
Our recently published America's Best Graduate Schools rankings have triggered a growing debate about how to rate grad schools and what factors should be used.
The new law school rankings have been a primary focus. Check out the blogs Above the Law and TaxProf for some of the best coverage and reactions to the law school rankings. In addition, in Prof. Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, there is an open letter about how to improve the U.S. News law school rankings. I will comment on Leiter's open letter in the near future.
U.S. News would like this blog to be a vehicle for ongoing discussions of the Best Graduate School rankings. Readers of this blog can post comments, ask questions about the best grad rankings, and offer their own insights, positive or negative. You are invited to add your views to what has so far been a mostly one-way conversation. What do you have to do? Just go to the bottom of this blog entry (or my other previous posts) and click on "Comments," then follow the instructions. I will make an effort to quickly respond to your comments or questions.
If you are interested in more information about the America's Best Graduate Schools 2009 edition methodology, and for answers to frequently asked questions, you can go here.
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Medical School Rankings - Self Reported Data Validation?
Bob,
I was looking at the Medical School rankings and the associated trends in full-time faculty counts as reported/implied in the fac/student ratio and NIH/faculty components of the Research Rankings of Medical Schools.
Was wondering what sort of internal checks are done on the self-reported data. For example, did you investigate why Yale's full-time faculty count dropped by nearly 500 between the 2006 and 2007 rankings?
Ranking Year | Yale's Full time Faculty Count
2001 1342
2002 1389
2003 1436
2004 1420
2005 1470
2006 1503
2007 1014
2008 1024
2009 1063
Coincidentally 2006 was the first year the NIH/faculty metric was introduced, where a school with a smaller faculty count would benefit, as Yale did in their rankings trend (11 in 2006 to 9 in 2007 to 8 in 2008).
What sort of checks are in place for this sort of reporting variablity from year to year?
Regards,
Matt
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