UC Rankings 2011: US News & World Report

Cali_Trumpet
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:48:05 +0000

Two things to consider:

1) Lag: There is a lag time (I don’t know what it is nor do I care to look) between a school’s actions and those actions showing up in a ranking somewhere. Anything that UCD did this year or last year probably won’t be reflected in rankings for another two or three years.

2) Methodology: IF US news kept the same methodology from year to year, we could actually see which schools became stronger and which became weaker. If this were the case, rankings would be really boring because they would remain almost the same year after year. Changes in rankings excite people and sell magazines, which is why they constantly change the ranking methodology to artificially raise and lower schools. Real changes in a University’s quality of education take time.