<p>See: [The</a> Graduation Rate Gap :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, and Views and Jobs](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/21/gradrates]The”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/21/gradrates)</p>
<p>This part was quite interesting:</p>
<p>*The Education Sector offers a range of possible steps that might have a national impact on closing the gaps in graduation rates of black and white students:</p>
<pre><code>* Changing rankings formulas. The report notes that the second most significant factor in U.S. News & World Reports rankings counting for 16 percent of total scores is the six-year graduation rate. But the report notes that because there is no accounting for subgroup rates, an institution like Indiana University (72 percent rate overall, with large black-white gap) is judged to be better than Florida State (68 percent over all, without a black-white gap), and questions whether this is fair. While U.S. News, in some of its rankings, also gives points for predicted graduation rate (a category that rewards colleges that have higher than expected graduation rates for the socioeconomic range of students enrolled), the report notes that this is weighted with much more influence and isnt even used in all rankings.*
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