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Data Collection Begins for the 2013 Best Colleges Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2012 Comment (13)U.S. News is once again hard at work on the next edition of the Best Colleges rankings.
We recently started collecting the statistical data that will be used for the 2013 edition of our college rankings, which will be published later this year. Data collection for the three U.S. News statistical surveys—the main one, financial aid, and finance—began on March 27.
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Update to the 2013 Best Graduate Schools Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook March 23, 2012 Comment (6)Two schools have advised U.S. News that they had made reporting errors that resulted in submitting inflated data that were used in the recently published 2013 edition of the Best Graduate Schools rankings, resulting in their rankings being higher than they otherwise might have been.
Because of the discrepancies, U.S. News is moving these two programs to the "Unranked" category in the Best Graduate Schools section of www.usnews.com. Unranked means that U.S. News did not calculate a numerical ranking for this school. This Unranked status will last until the publication of the next Best Graduate Schools rankings and until the accuracy of each school's next data submission is confirmed to U.S. News.
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Updates on 2 Graduate Schools' Ranking Data
Tweet Share on Facebook March 15, 2012 Comment (2)Officials at two schools to date have told U.S. News that they made errors reporting some of their data that was used in the newly published, 2013 edition of the Best Graduate Schools rankings.
Law: University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis advised U.S. News that it overreported the number and proportion of its 2010 graduates who had jobs at graduation.
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Making Sense of Law Schools' Jobs Data
Tweet Share on Facebook March 13, 2012 Comment (2)Now that new Best Law Schools rankings have been published, we want to give some perspective on the law school jobs data used in the latest rankings and what to expect in the future.
Anybody who is considering law school these days (and is wondering whether the investment would actually pay off in a job) may have noticed that there's been a lot of heated commentary over the last year about the usefulness of the employment data publicized by law schools, and much of it has been covered in this blog.
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U.S. News to Collect More Data From Colleges
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2012 Comment (7)Later in March, U.S. News will begin collecting the statistical data that will be used for the 2013 edition of our Best Colleges rankings, which will be published later this year. We plan to collect and hope to publish information in three new areas: differential graduation rates based on income and race; data about the affordability of colleges; and information about each college's connectivity.
At U.S. News, we often hear feedback that we ought to collect and publish more information about how colleges and universities are serving their entire student populations. The Higher Education Opportunity Act, passed in 2009, requires that schools disclose the graduation rates of students who received a federal Pell grant, students who received a subsidized Stafford loan but not a Pell grant, and students who received neither.
