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The US News rankings were already a bit of a mess, but leaving out one of the Ivy Leagues is only going to be bad for US News. An Ivy League school does not ne
by twblalock 4y ago
The US News rankings were already a bit of a mess, but leaving out one of the Ivy Leagues is only going to be bad for US News.
An Ivy League school does not need help from the rankings -- but rankings that leave out one of the most prestigious and well-known universities in the country are useless.
- prepend 4y ago> An Ivy League school does not need help from the rankings I tend to agree, but why then did Columbia fudge the numbers? I think there’s some envy from the “lesser ivys” that they wish they were Harvard or Princeton. A high USNews ranking proves little, but I guess Columbia wanted to be tied with Harvard.
- genericone 4y agoColumbia incentivized administration MBAs to increase the rankings, perhaps attached to bonuses. They did it unscrupulously by fudging the numbers and so Columbia will hopefully will dis-incentivize the behavior in the future, and so perhaps will other schools... doubt it.
- rr888 4y agoIvy league is kinda obsolete now, esp with places like Stanford, Duke, John Hopkins better known than Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell.