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Examining Reactions to the Online Degree Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook January 12, 2012 Comment (4)The most comprehensive and detailed listings of online education degree programs and rankings went live on January 10 on usnews.com. All the ranked bachelor's and master's online degree programs on usnews.com are regionally accredited and disclosed a significant amount of information about their offerings.
Consequently, any online degree program with a presence on U.S. News's revamped online education site has instantly distinguished itself from programs that are not truly online or do not have the most rigorous accreditation. Not surprisingly, since the release of the rankings, a flurry of schools rushed to publicize them, and some even expressed their approval via E-mails.
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U.S. News Online Degree Program Rankings Launch January 10
Tweet Share on Facebook January 3, 2012 Comment (6)U.S.News & World Report will launch its first-ever ranking of top online education degree programs. The rankings will be featured exclusively on usnews.com starting Jan. 10, 2012.
U.S. News has redesigned and expanded its online education section to not only develop top degree program ranking lists, but to also build online degree program profiles and advanced online program search functionality.
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U.S. News Holds Annual Meeting With Deans of College Admissions
Tweet Share on Facebook December 22, 2011 Comment (3)U.S. News editors and staffers met in early December with a cross section of deans of admissions and enrollment management from U.S. colleges to get their input on various education issues and to get feedback on the Best Colleges rankings and methodology. U.S. News has held an annual meeting with an independent advisory board of admissions deans since 1992. As in the past, we found this meeting to be highly beneficial.
Here is a sampling of the topics from this year's meeting:
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Latest Acceptance Rate Data Not Inflated, U.S. Naval Academy Says
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2011 Comment (1)A recent article in the Navy Times, titled "Professor says academy overstates applicants," claimed that the U.S. Naval Academy "is artificially inflating its number of applicants to boost its status among other colleges, according to an academy professor who based his accusations on the school's own documents."
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U.S. News Presents at Institutional Research Annual Meeting
Tweet Share on Facebook December 8, 2011 Comment (2)I just returned from Boston and the North East Association for Institutional Research's 2011 annual conference, "Leading the Charge for Institutional Research." This annual meeting of college researchers and analysts from colleges and universities in the Northeast was among the largest in its history.
I was joined at the conference by two U.S. News colleagues—Evan Jones, strategic analytics; and Chris Petrie, education analyst—who are in charge of the some of the new data products U.S. News has released in 2011.
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Iona College Admits to Inflating Rankings Data for 9 Years
Tweet Share on Facebook December 1, 2011 Comment (1)Given the degree and magnitude of Iona College's recent revelations of its data misreporting, U.S. News has evaluated how Iona's ranking in the current Best Colleges rankings would have changed. In the current, 2012 edition, Iona College is ranked 30th overall in the Regional Universities—North category. U.S. News estimates that Iona College's ranking would have fallen by approximately 20 places in that category, had we used accurate data instead of the data Iona first reported to us in April 2011.
Iona College posted a report on its website on Nov. 8, 2011, that said "we recently discovered inaccuracies in student performance data reported to external agencies. In response, we subsequently initiated a thorough investigation by outside legal counsel with the assistance of a third-party independent auditing firm."
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U.S. News Debates Law Schools over Adding Diversity to Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook November 23, 2011 Comment (1)I represented U.S. News at an early November 2011 meeting at St. John's School of Law in New York that was titled Opening Doors: Making Diversity Matter in Law School Admissions.
The symposium discussed that:
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La Salle University Official Discusses Impact of College Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2011 Comment (3)John F. Dolan, vice president for enrollment services at La Salle University in Pennsylvania has written to U.S. News about the process of supplying data for our Best Colleges rankings, how U.S. News has worked with La Salle to correct missing information for prospective students and our readers, and how to set up data reporting systems to prevent such problems from occurring.
In Dolan's words, this is what happened at La Salle after the 2012 edition of the Best Colleges rankings were published on Sept. 15, 2011:
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U.S. News Meets With AACRAO to Discuss Future of College Rankings
Tweet Share on Facebook November 10, 2011 Comment (6)I represented U.S. News and participated in a serious discussion November 1 on ways how to improve the college rankings. Hosted by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), the half-day session, held in San Diego, was titled "College and University Rankings Discussion: Can We Improve How We Assess the Undergraduate Experience?" and was part of AACRAO's 2011 Strategic Enrollment Management Conference.
The event follows the recent publication of numerous articles on college rankings in AACRAO's College & University Journal. AACRAO's ranking discussion at the conference focused on one of the journal articles, "Rating (Not Ranking) the Undergraduate Experience: Principles from a National Discussion," by Jason Lane, a professor at University of Albany—SUNY and one of the panelists at the conference.
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U.S. News Holds Historic Meeting With Medical School Deans
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2011 Comment (1)U.S. News participated in an important half-day meeting about of our Best Medical School rankings with deans from many of our top ranked medical schools. The October 27 event, "The Impact and the Future of Medical School Rankings," was sponsored by U.S.News & World Report and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and was held at Mount Sinai in New York.
The main purpose of the meeting was for those at U.S. News involved in producing our medical school rankings to discuss all aspects of those rankings with academics at leading medical schools. The medical school deans offered very sophisticated feedback on what aspects of the rankings were working and what areas needed to be improved.
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