@JBStillFlying - do rankings change that quickly, and that steeply? If you go back 20 years, UChicago’s College was ranked #12 - now it’s ranked #3. That’s a nice increase. UPenn’s college was ranked #13, now it’s ranked #8, a nice change.
But in the med world. UChicago had specialties ranked in the top 10 or the top 20 6 years ago that have dropped 20, 30, 40 places or more.
Rankings for the top - for credibility purposes - seem to NOT change drastically over time, or year to year. You have some surprises every year, but at the top, it’s been quite consistent for a long period of time.
Could you point me to any other top, wealthy school that has seen a 40-spot drop in a period of 10 years?
I’m also confused by your statement of size being rewarded. Vandy’s med plant is bigger than Chicago’s, but Chicago was ranked ahead of Vandy as recently as 8 years ago. I apologize for bringing this up again, but what happened, as the methodology has stayed quite consistent? Are you attributing this mainly to lax advertising? What’s the reason for that? I mean if everyone else is achieving success thru advertising, why fall 8 years behind on this?