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Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2015

Introduction: A Different Kind of College Ranking

by The Editors

To see our full list of rankings, click here. Two years ago this month, President Barack Obama made a bold promise: Starting with the 2015-16 academic year, his administration would rate every college and university in America. Instead of comparing colleges with the wealth and prestige measures used by the likes of U.S. News & […]

Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2015

A Note on Methodology: 4-Year Colleges and Universities

by The Editors

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 […]

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

A Note on methodology: 4-year colleges and universities

by The Editors

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 […]

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