The College Peer Assessment Ranking Surveys Have Launched

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Thank god some bloggers can still write. Thank you for this post...

game testing of AL 1:14AM April 17, 2012

That is very revelatory blog post!!

vegan dinner recipes of AL 5:38AM December 15, 2011

Curiously, a well executed piece..

Princess of AL 11:43AM December 11, 2011

You're precisely right on this one!

raw food diet of AL 7:59AM November 21, 2011

Picking on a small grammatical mistake and impose harsh wordings on others show how mean your mind is. Any company run by people with this personality deserves even less credit.

AK of CA 3:36PM April 08, 2010

PP of AL,
Maybe you should go back to school yourself and realize that "criterias" is not a word; that criteria is already plural.
Arguments are typically more credible when the basic English is correct.

RB of NJ 10:16AM April 08, 2010

Maybe you should create your own survey that lists the criterias you have chosen
USNews report never intended her own rankings to substituting for human resources hiring purposes.
It's merely a beauty pageant, popularity contest, creating the norm in US.
You should consider asking the NRC Council to creating real rankings that aren't published for profit.

PP of AL 6:46PM March 28, 2010

Want to know how well a college educates its students, look at quantitative output metrics. For example how many students go on to get Phd.s, or graduate school exam scores vs income SAT/ACT scores or mean salaries form business or engineering colleges. National student engagement survey moves us in the right direction. I don’t know any heads of corporations or heads of human resources that use US NEWS & World Report’s rankings to dictate hiring. I say this having worked for 12 different CEO’s of Fortune 500 firms and now running a college consulting practice for 10 years.
Larry Dannenberg, College Solutions

Larry Dannenberg of MA 3:42PM March 18, 2010

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Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings

Robert Morse is director of data research for U.S.News & World Report and has worked at the company since 1976. He develops the methodologies and surveys for the Best Colleges and Best Graduate Schools annual rankings, keeping an eye on higher-education trends to make sure the rankings offer prospective students the best analysis available. Morse Code provides deeper insights into the methodologies and is a forum for commentary and analysis of college, grad, and other rankings.