<p>Just did a little checking. Unless US News & World report changed its factors, since the post below, they DO use yield as a factor (albeit at a small percentage) in its rankings.</p>
<p>“In the introductory matter to U.S. News’s America’s Best Colleges 2000,
the editors remind rankings-conscious admissions departments that efforts to
improve yield “simply to move up a rank or two would be silly; yield
accounts for a mere 1.5 percent of the overall ranking.” It ought to count
for more: yield is a telling statistic and Laissez-Faire pays more attention
to it than does U.S. News.”</p>