> I wonder how many universities actually mega climbed ranks in the past decades though An example of rankings being climbed: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/n

> I wonder how many universities actually mega climbed ranks in the past decades though An example of rankings being climbed: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/ https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeast... (Not to dis Northeastern. They have some great professors, and do some great teaching and research. And the faculty of a university don't necessarily agree with the businesspeople.) But if you think that kind of college rankings climbing is a concern, the climbing demand that college has evolved for students is worse, and has implications for tech industry, as I asserted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086755