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Making Sense of Changes to the U.S. News Rankings Methodology

Robert Kelchen

Fully seventy percent of these rankings are tied to metrics of social mobility, with a massive survey of students and alumni (20%) and diversity metrics (10%) making up the remainder. There is a long history of college leaders providing dubious ratings or trying to game the metrics by judging other institutions poorly.