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Best Graduate School Rankings Are Coming Soon
Tweet Share on Facebook February 24, 2011 Comment (11)The new graduate school rankings are less than three weeks away.
Our new Best Graduate Schools rankings will be published online on March 15, 2011 on usnews.com. Highlights of the rankings will be published in the Best Graduate Schools 2012 edition newsstand guidebook, on sale April 5, 2011. The most comprehensive version of the upcoming Best Graduate Schools, including all the extended rankings and the most comprehensive data, will be available online only through the all-new U.S. News Graduate School Compass.
What can you expect in mid-March? As in the past, we will have new rankings in the five largest professional graduate school disciplines: business, law, education, engineering, and medicine, as well as the various specialties associated with each of those five broad disciplines.
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Villanova Law School Certifies Accuracy of New Data
Tweet Share on Facebook February 17, 2011 Comment (5)Earlier this month, Villanova Law School's new dean John Gotanda sent a letter to the school's alumni and others revealing "inaccuracies in the admissions data reported to the American Bar Association (ABA) by Villanova Law School for years prior to 2010." This same inaccurate admissions data was also reported to U.S. News by the school and was used to compute our law school rankings, but the full extent of the problem, which occurred under Villanova's prior administration, has not been determined or disclosed publicly yet.
The inaccurate data was the median LSAT and undergraduate grade point average for entering classes, both of which are used in the methodology for the U.S. News law school rankings. The LSAT has a weight of 12.5 percent, and the undergraduate grade point average counts for 10 percent.
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FAQs on New Teacher-Preparation Program Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook February 10, 2011 Comment (1)U.S.News & World Report and the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) recently announced a partnership to produce a rating of teacher preparation programs at more than 1,000 education schools across the U.S. Since the announcement, some key questions have been raised about the project. Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions:
Why are U.S. News and NCTQ rating teacher preparation programs? U.S. News believes that teacher education programs are very important and have not been scrutinized in the past. There is a big push nationwide to improve teacher quality and the quality of schools at the K-12 level. These new rankings will be part of the national movement to hold teacher preparation programs accountable for their graduates. We hope these new rankings will help lead to improvements in teacher quality and better schools.
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Will the Rebound in Endowments Impact the Best Colleges Rankings?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 3, 2011 CommentIt looks like the value of college endowments, which had fallen very sharply during the recession, is starting to recover. This conclusion comes from the newly released 2010 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments, produced by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
It turns out that 2010 ended up being a very good year for the performance of college endowments. According to the NACUBO study, the endowments of the 850 institutions that were surveyed had an average increase of 11.9 percent in the year ending June 30, 2010. This represents a significant improvement from the average decline of 18.7 percent reported in endowments in 2009. Yet, despite last year's recovery in the overall stock market, endowments have yet to return to the levels that existed prior to the recession.
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