<p>Im not here to defend U.S. News and, as I suggested, U.S. News should NOT be the authority on college rankings. I was only trying to point out that their rankings are not totally arbitrary and their methodology does not change every year. Since rankings are not likely to go away, perhaps other publications should compete with U.S. News and provide alternative rankings. For instance, several sources rank MBA programs using different methodologies and no one publication seems to be the ultimate authority. Credible competition in college rankings would provide students with different perspectives and additional information about individual schools. One would hope, however, that a credible, independent, and unbiased source would produce the competing rankings; Professor Leiter is not such a source.</p>