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If you’re in high school and looking ahead to college, you probably already know all about U.S. News & World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges,” which ranks colleges and universities around the country. These rankings can give you a great place to start, but if your college search revolves entirely around this list, you’re throwing ...

Once again, U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking of colleges and universities received hordes of criticism and its yearly flogging from university presidents and officials who take issue with the magazine’s grading system. Even despite the effort of a small group of college presidents to initiate a boycott of the magazine’s survey, school ...

Strangely enough, just as universities in the United States are starting to question the validity of college rankings such as those published by U.S. News & World Report, colleges around the globe are starting to want to get in on the craze.   According to an April 18, 2007 article written by Martin Van Der Werf, titled “As College ...

In the past few years, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding U.S. News & World Report’s yearly college issue, “America’s Best Colleges” and the rankings of the colleges. Many are saying the rankings and the methodology used are inaccurate at best and slanted at worst. I remember a New York Times article saying that the rankings may ...