<p>No one has mentioned Vanderbilt’s 4 year graduation rate of 87% vs UM’s 4 year graduation rate of 73%. It takes UM students 6 years to reach an 87% graduation rate. For an out of state student that’s $110,000+.<br>
Anyone who thinks all universities aren’t “gaming the USNWR” to keep their ranking high must be living in fantasyland. There must be 100 ways to game the system and universities know them all.</p>