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Columbia Loses Its No. 2 Spot in the U.S. News Rankings

What is the equivalent of “disbarred” or “defrocked” in the world of college rankings? Without fanfare, U.S. News & World Report announced that it had “unranked” Columbia University, which had been in a three-way tie for the No. 2 spot in the 2022 edition of Best Colleges, after being unable to verify the underlying data […]

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After a Professor’s Scrutiny, ‘U.S. News’ Pulls Columbia University’s No. 2 Ranking

U.S. News & World Report has removed Columbia University’s National Universities ranking after the institution “failed to respond to multiple” requests from the magazine’s rankers “that the university substantiate certain data it previously submitted,” U.S. News analysts wrote on Thursday. U.S. News had ranked No. 2 in the country for its undergraduate programs. Now it […]

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Columbia to skip U.S. News college rankings this year

Placeholder while article actions load Columbia University will skip the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges this year, university officials announced, as they review data that had been questioned by a professor at the school. “Columbia leaders take these questions seriously, and we immediately embarked on a review of our data collection and […]

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Will Other Universities Follow Columbia And Step Back From U.S. News’ College Rankings?

As it investigates the accuracy of the data it’s submitted, Columbia University has decided to not … [+] participate in the upcoming college rankings by U.S. News. Will other colleges follow suit? getty Last week’s revelation by Columbia University that it would not participate in U.S. News and World Report’s upcoming college rankings because of […]

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