<p>[How</a> U.S. News Calculates the College Rankings - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/08/17/how-us-news-calculates-the-college-rankings.html?PageNr=3]How”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/08/17/how-us-news-calculates-the-college-rankings.html?PageNr=3)</p>
<p>Actually the alumni giving rate is only 5 percent. Much more important are how other schools view us, student retention and graduation (6 year) rate, and faculty resources (like student to faculty ratio). That’s why it’s near impossible to get into a class topped at 19 or 49 students- because ranking systems use “number of classes with less than 20/50 students”.</p>
<p>Not saying donations aren’t important because clearly they are, but they aren’t that significant in rankings. And “tuition run” means that the school would be hurt a lot more if tuitions disappeared than donations. Almost every micro class covers the boston colleges at least once, mainly to point out that BU’s president is paid less than ours.</p>