2007 USN&WR College Rankings
And they'rrrre out!...
The 2007 US News & World Report collge rankings, that is.
According to America's Best Colleges 2007, the top 10 U.S. national universities are:
1. Princeton
2. Harvard
3. Yale
4. California Institute of Technology, MIT, and Stanford (tied)
7. University of Pennsylvania
8. Duke
9. Dartmouth, Columbia, University of Chicago (tied)
The top 10 liberal arts colleges are:
1. Williams
2. Amherst
3. Swarthmore
4. Wellesley
5. Middlebury
6. Carleton
7. Bowdoin and Pomona (tie)
9. Haverford
10. Davidson College and Wesleyan University (tied)
Princeton edged out Harvard for first place in the national university rankings this year partly because of the no-loan financial aid policy it introduced five years ago. The new policy has contributed to a spike in applications that in turn increased Princeton's scores on selectivity and popularity. Harvard has since adopted a similarly generous financial aid policy.
The University of Chicago credits its six-place jump from 15th place on last year's USN&WR list to 9th place this year on past errors in the survey data it submitted. Chicago officials said the school had been selling itself short on the number of small classes and on educational spending. Once it got those figures right, the school's overall score placed it in the top ten.
Reed College again placed in the middle of the USN&WR list of the top 100 liberal arts colleges despite its refusal to return rankings surveys. Reed has pointedly declined to answer USN&WR surveys since 1995. The boycott has done no harm to the popularity of the USN&WR's annual college guides, but it's done no harm to Reed, either. The College has continued to gain prestige and to attract a growing number of high-achieving applicants, and is arguably doing better on both scores than a number of higher-ranked schools are.
Sources:
"US News & World Report Announces Annual Rankings of America's Best Colleges" - press release, USN&WR (Washington, DC), August 18, 2006
"U of C Jumps to 9th in College Rankings," by Jodi S. Cohen - the Chicago Tribune, August 18, 2006
"Princeton, Harvard, Yale Top US News College List" - Bloomberg, August 18, 2006
"Is There Life After Rankings?" by Colin Diver - the Atlantic Monthly, November 2005
The 2007 US News & World Report collge rankings, that is.
According to America's Best Colleges 2007, the top 10 U.S. national universities are:
1. Princeton
2. Harvard
3. Yale
4. California Institute of Technology, MIT, and Stanford (tied)
7. University of Pennsylvania
8. Duke
9. Dartmouth, Columbia, University of Chicago (tied)
The top 10 liberal arts colleges are:
1. Williams
2. Amherst
3. Swarthmore
4. Wellesley
5. Middlebury
6. Carleton
7. Bowdoin and Pomona (tie)
9. Haverford
10. Davidson College and Wesleyan University (tied)
Princeton edged out Harvard for first place in the national university rankings this year partly because of the no-loan financial aid policy it introduced five years ago. The new policy has contributed to a spike in applications that in turn increased Princeton's scores on selectivity and popularity. Harvard has since adopted a similarly generous financial aid policy.
The University of Chicago credits its six-place jump from 15th place on last year's USN&WR list to 9th place this year on past errors in the survey data it submitted. Chicago officials said the school had been selling itself short on the number of small classes and on educational spending. Once it got those figures right, the school's overall score placed it in the top ten.
Reed College again placed in the middle of the USN&WR list of the top 100 liberal arts colleges despite its refusal to return rankings surveys. Reed has pointedly declined to answer USN&WR surveys since 1995. The boycott has done no harm to the popularity of the USN&WR's annual college guides, but it's done no harm to Reed, either. The College has continued to gain prestige and to attract a growing number of high-achieving applicants, and is arguably doing better on both scores than a number of higher-ranked schools are.
Sources:
"US News & World Report Announces Annual Rankings of America's Best Colleges" - press release, USN&WR (Washington, DC), August 18, 2006
"U of C Jumps to 9th in College Rankings," by Jodi S. Cohen - the Chicago Tribune, August 18, 2006
"Princeton, Harvard, Yale Top US News College List" - Bloomberg, August 18, 2006
"Is There Life After Rankings?" by Colin Diver - the Atlantic Monthly, November 2005
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