US News Best Colleges 2026 Rankings: US Berkeley Named Top Public School, Princeton Best National University

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This article mentions a scandal regarding Columbia that has affected its ranking:

Interesting article from Inside HigherEd about College Rankings, Methodology, Scandals

The methodology and results of the various college rankings are under intense scrutiny (look no further than our own threads dedicated to specific college rankings). Today I came across this article that looks into how a case of rankings fraud led to a positive outcome. Temple University was rocked by a rankings scandal in 2018, when it became clear that Moshe Porat, the dean of Temple’s Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management, had knowingly provided false data to U.S. News for years in a successful effort to climb the rankings. Temple’s online master of business administration soared to No. 1—until the scheme was exposed. U.S. News temporarily unranked the program, the U.S. Department of Education hit Temple with a $700,000 fine and Porat was convicted of fraud. Since then, Temple has worked hard to restore its reputation. In the aftermath of the scandal, officials imposed universitywide changes to how it handles facts and figures, establishing a Data Verification Unit…