We have gathered a selection of additional articles about the U.S. News & World Report ranking system and invite you to read them for more views and information.
The Best, The Top, The Most: College Rankings have become a Cottage Industry. Which one should you believe?
By Nicholas Thompson
A Better Way to Evaluate Colleges
By Jake B Schrum
Broken Ranks: U.S. News' college rankings measure everything but what matters. And most universities do not seem to mind.
By Amy Graham and Nicholas Thompson
Cooking the School Books: How U.S. News cheats in picking its "best American colleges."
By Bruce Gottlieb
Cooking the School Books (Yet Again): The U.S. News college rankings get phonier and phonier.
By Nicholas Thompson
Dissension in the Rankings: U.S. News responds to Slate's "best colleges" story.
By Brian Duffy and Peter Cary
How We Rank Schools
By Robert J. Morse and Samuel M. Flanigan
Playing with Numbers: How U.S. News mismeasures higher education and what we can do about it
By Nicholas Thompson
Quantifying Quality: What Can the U.S. News and World Report Rankings Tell us About the Quality of Higher Education?
By Marguerite Clark
Reaching for the Brass Ring: The US News & World Report Rankings and Competition by Ronald G. Ehrenberg