This week, Columbia University said it would no longer provide information for the U.S. News and World Report’s decades-old rankings list of colleges and universities. The high-profile dropout follows a parade of prestigious law schools and medical schools that said they’d no longer participate. Francie Diep, senior reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, joins John Yang to discuss.
John Yang:
For decades, U.S. News and World Report has been ranking colleges and universities. And for decades, colleges and universities have been complaining about the guide's outsized influence and the criteria it uses.
This week, Columbia University said it would no longer provide information for the rankings, the highest profile dropout from the undergraduate ratings. This follows a parade of prestigious law schools and medical schools that said they'd no longer participate in the graduate school rankings.
Francie Diep is a senior reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education, covering money in higher education. Francie, when Columbia announced the step they were taking, they said they had concerns about how the rankings distill a university's profile into a composite of data categories. Numbers alone could never convey the broader experience of undergraduate life at Columbia.
Is that sort of the nub of the gist of their arguments against the rankings?
Francie Diep, The Chronicle Of Higher Education:
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