“Dartmouth falls out of an exclusive group,” declared a 2016 headline in The Washington Post just days after the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education released its 2015 classifications … Continue reading “Carnegie Classifications—What’s All the Fuss?”
Higher education reformers have long argued that colleges’ admissions selectivity reveals little about their educational quality and how well they prepare students for the workforce and civic life. The U.S. … Continue reading “Will This New College Ranking System Upend the Status Quo?”
The decline of U.S. News and World Report’s dominance of college ranking systems is a good thing.
A new college ranking system featured in Forbes Magazine might improve on U.S. News’ annual rankings, but neither is necessary.