Morse, Robert
Articles by Morse, Robert
What do you do if you are a high school student with less-than-dazzling grades and SAT/ACT scores and you still want to go to a very good school?
A look at innovative things that schools do that go beyond the rankings that we publish.
U.S. News takes the percentage of Pell grant recipients into account when assessing graduation rate performance.
A new group of colleges was added to the list of unranked schools for America's Best Colleges 2008.
The new America's Best Colleges 2008 edition rankings go live on August 17. What does U.S. News do to ensure the integrity of the data that we publish in the rankings?
It's getting very close to the launch of the next America's Best Colleges rankings: The 2008 edition is going to be published on Friday, August 17, the day that the new rankings go live on our website.
David Van Zandt says rankings give prospective students important information.
The U.S. News law school rankings draw more attention and controversy than any of our other graduate school rankings. They've even been the subject of academic symposia. Two examples are the Association of American Law Schools "Workshop on the Ratings Game" and the Indiana University School of Law's "The Next Generation of Law School Rankings".
On Monday, Samuel Flanigan (deputy director of data research) and I met with the leaders of the Center for Measuring University Performance. The center, located, at Arizona State University, focuses on competition among major research universities and has its own widely read rankings.
