<p>It’s not just that. A decent chunk of the score goes to graduate research, funding, and other school’s thoughts on you. They’ve targeted a lot of those areas to make them more attractive. Plus it’s not just “changing the way they looked at NEU” because all schools got that change. So a kid at USF who takes five years to graduate looks the same as someone from NEU, even though at NEU its normal and at USF it’s because of budget cuts.</p>