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Columbia math professor questions numbers behind university's #2 U.S. News rank
- dan-robertson 5y agoThis should probably just link to the actual article by the professor: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation.html http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation...
- lupire 5y agoUS News Rankings are BS and have very little to do with educational quality (for any definition of education), even when accurate.
- huitzitziltzin 5y agoFor another fun example with serious consequences for the guy who arranged the fraud, read about the former Dean of the business school at Temple in Philadelphia who lied to USNews and may go to jail for up to 25 years. https://billypenn.com/2021/12/02/temple-dean-guilty-rankings-scandal-moshe-porat-fox-business-school/ https://billypenn.com/2021/12/02/temple-dean-guilty-rankings... Notes: - he isn’t going to go to jail for lying to US News. That isn’t the crime. - it’s unlikely anyone from Columbia is quite as shameless as he was. More likely they are just being a bit “creative” with what they count as “instructional spending” or with what counts as a “class”.