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<p>I guess this depends on who you consider “self” - with the US News reports the colleges and universities “self-report”. This is like asking Applebee’s to grade their Fiesta Lime Chicken.
What Forbes is attempting to do is look at the results of the education. Both recent and not so recent. So that is sort of like asking anyone who has ever eaten Fiesta Lime Chicken at Applebee’s in the last 5-10 years to give it a grade.
Very different assessments.</p>
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This is another point that Forbes is trying to make - how “competitive” a school is doesn’t necessarily translate into an excellent education. The reverse is even more true - there are a lot of schools that are not deemed as “competitive” (read: popular) as others that offer excellent educations.</p>