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Tulane Freeman School of Business Misreported Some Admissions Data
Tweet Share on Facebook December 20, 2012 CommentOn December 19, Tulane University in New Orleans informed U.S. News that it had recently discovered that its Freeman School of Business had misreported certain data reported to U.S. News: average GMAT scores for full-time MBA students entering in fall 2011 and the total number of applicants. The school also said that these same data points were misreported for the fall 2010 class and possibly in earlier years.
These misreported figures were used by U.S. News as part of the ranking of the Freeman School of Business in our 2013 Best Business Schools, as well as in our previous years' rankings. Tulane said it didn't know yet what the correct numbers were and how significantly different they were from what was originally reported to U.S. News.
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U.S. News Talks Rankings, Higher Ed Trends With Admissions Deans
Tweet Share on Facebook December 20, 2012 CommentLate last month, U.S. News editors and staffers met with a diverse group of deans of admissions and enrollment management from U.S. colleges to solicit feedback on the Best Colleges rankings and methodology and get their views on timely higher education issues. Since 1992, U.S. News has held a similar annual meeting with an independent advisory board of U.S. college admissions deans.
We always find these meetings to be highly beneficial. Here is a sampling of the topics from this year's meeting.
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Coming January 15: U.S. News Best Online Education Programs Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2012 CommentFor the first time, U.S. News will publish numerical rankings on the overall quality of distance education programs.
This means that the second annual edition of Best Online Education Programs—set for release exclusively on usnews.com on January 15—will have a No. 1 bachelor's degree program, a No. 1 master's in engineering degree program, and likewise for master's degrees in business, education, nursing, and computer information technology.
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Which Highly Ranked Universities Operate Most Efficiently?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 6, 2012 CommentIn these times of tight or reduced state budgets, it's important for some colleges to efficiently spend their limited resources in order to produce the highest possible educational quality. U.S. News has developed an exclusive new list showing which schools are able to produce the highest educational quality, as determined by their place in our Best Colleges rankings, but spend relatively less money to achieve that quality.
U.S. News measures financial resources by taking into account how much a school spends per student on instruction, research, student services, and related educational expenditures. Financial resources has a 10 percent weight in the Best Colleges ranking methodology.
