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Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2014

A Note on methodology: 4-year colleges and universities

There are two primary goals to our methodology. First, we considered no single category to be more important than any other. Second, the final rankings needed to reflect excellence across the full breadth of our measures, rather than reward an exceptionally high focus on, say, research. Thus, all three main categories were weighted equally when […]