<p>ucbchemegrad: i used the 2008 edition usnwr, the article titled “How We Calculate the Rankings”, pages 76-79, as reference. here’s the exact quote on page79.</p>
<p>“Financial Resources (10 percent) Generous per-student spending indicates that a college can offer a wide variety of programs and services. U.S. News measures financial resources by using the average spending per student on instruction, research, student services, and related educational expenditures in the 2005 and 2006 fiscal years. Spending on sports, dorms, and hospitals doesn’t count, only the part of a school’s that goes toward educating students.”</p>
<p>i did delete the first intro-sentence and some words that do not change the meaning of the text as you may check the OP and the exact quote here.</p>