<p>To answer your question, jeffson, (“Why doesn’t US News rank like that?”) these papers rank the schools according to how likely an exceptional student would enroll. The U.S.N.W.R. doesn’t care about students: it cares about selling copies to helicopter parents, and it considers the opinion of institutional presidents and deans to be more important in determining a school’s prestige.</p>
<p>Thankfully, these data tell us that students are capable of looking beyond USNWR rankings and Peer Assessment scores, and the schools that deserve to be on top ultimately are.</p>