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US News College Rankings

US News college rankings are now online. The "top ten" are:

  1. Harvard
  2. Princeton
  3. Yale
  4. Penn
  5. Duke
  6. Stanford
  7. Cal Tech
  8. MIT
  9. Columbia
  10. Dartmouth

To US News' credit, it has broking down the rankings into numerous sub-rankings. The sub-rankings in my opinion are more valuable than the overall because you can slice and dice the data in ways that are more useful to you.

Furthermore, US News provides a lot of information about its methodology and using the rankings intelligently.  The "rankings" are really misnamed; they are surveys and data banks. To use this information beneficially, you need to know what it measures.

To use the data reached via the first link in this post, read the second link.

Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 at 10:37AM by Registered CommenterLinda Abraham in | CommentsPost a Comment

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