Ranking Colleges By Desirability?

College Search & Lists
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<p>This new rankings concept (actually a rehashing of similar approaches I’ve seen mentioned in the past) seems like a step in the wrong direction to me. </p>

<p>Go to [Ranking</a> Colleges by ?Desirability? | UVA Today](<a href=“http://news.virginia.edu/content/ranking-colleges-desirability]Ranking”>Ranking Colleges by ‘Desirability’ | UVA Today)</p>

<p>(I read the original version in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, but I don’t think that it’s accessible without a subscription. But the link above will let readers in via UVA Today.)</p>

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<p>This is nothing new (unless some spin now has been put on the concept that isn’t evident from the UVA TODAY article.) For some time now, the 50 Top Colleges site has been listing “revealed preference” as one of the 6 Rankings it cites.</p>

<p>[url=&lt;a href=“http://www.nber.org/papers/w10803]A”&gt;A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities | NBER]A</a> Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities<a href=“dated%20October%202004”>/url</a></p>