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Graduation, Indebtedness Factored Most in Online Bachelor's Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook January 17, 2013 CommentThe new 2013 Best Online Education Programs rankings were published on January 15. As noted in an earlier post, programs were given numeric ranks for the first time, resembling the long-standing U.S. News Best Colleges and Best Graduate Schools rankings.
Which factors were weighted the heaviest in the new online bachelor's programs rankings?
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FAQs on Recent Data Misreporting by Colleges
Tweet Share on Facebook January 10, 2013 CommentIn recent months, four colleges admitted to misreporting data to U.S. News & World Report for our college rankings. Most recently, Tulane University's MBA program said that it had misreported data that were used for our business school rankings.
Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about these instances of misreporting.
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Which Universities Are More Highly Ranked by High School Counselors Than by Colleges Officials?
Tweet Share on Facebook January 3, 2013 CommentDo high school counselors and college officials view universities differently? To answer this question, U.S. News is publishing a first-ever analysis of colleges in our National Universities rankings category that shows the academic reputation rankings gap between high school and college officials in our 2013 Best Colleges rankings.
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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.
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Which Ranked Universities Are Doing Better Than Their Academic Reputations?
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2012 CommentU.S. News is publishing a first-ever analysis of colleges in our National Universities ranking category that are overperforming or underperforming their undergraduate academic reputations in terms of their overall Best Colleges 2013 rankings. This concept measures the degree to which a university's overall position in the rankings exceeds or falls short of its undergraduate academic reputation rank.
How should these results be interpreted?
If a school is doing better in the overall rankings than in its undergraduate academic reputation, it means the school is performing relatively well in the other key academic indicators used in the rankings: admissions selectivity, financial and faculty resources, alumni giving, and graduation and retention rates. It also means that a school's undergraduate reputation among its academic peers is lagging behind the progress the school has achieved in the underlying academic indicators.
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'Higher Education Today' Interview Focuses on College Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook November 21, 2012 CommentI recently appeared on Higher Education Today, a production of the University of the District of Columbia, in a show entitled "U.S. News College Rankings."
The TV program was hosted by Steven Roy Goodman, a Washington, D.C.-based educational consultant, author, and admissions strategist. Also appearing on the show with me was Anne Weeks, upper school head of The Salisbury School, a private independent school located in Salisbury, Md.
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FAQs on George Washington University’s Data Misreporting
Tweet Share on Facebook November 16, 2012 CommentWe have received several questions about the U.S. News decision to move George Washington University to the "Unranked" category in the 2013 Best Colleges rankings. Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.
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