next years rankings?

Peppers
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:10:01 +0000

They need to change a lot of things about the US News rankings. When 25% of their criteria is supposedly how much money they have in their endowments, you get an idea why Harvard and Yale, with $25bill and $18bill respectively, get to keep their top spots.

It also seems to be why the public schools, with Berkeley leading, don’t seem to ever be beyond the 20th ranking. IMO the top tier UCs and U Mich. are more than better than some of the private schools in the 10~20 region. I understand that schools like Notre Dame, Emory, Rice, and Vanderbilt are great, but I guess regional perceptions make it hard for me to think of them as greater than Berkeley.

While I don’t necessarily think that LA is worse than Berkeley, I do believe that the distance between them is more or less justified. It’s their distance from the top ten that tends to annoy me and make me realize just how biased US News is towards public schools.