Why don’t we just declare ALL colleges “Number One?” After all, isn’t that the fairest thing to do? /sarc
Now this for me, is so true...
#4 U.S. News runs a beauty pageant.
A major factor in the rankings is what everybody else thinks about each other.
Three administrators at each of the institutions in the national university category, for instance, must assess what they think about all their peers on a one-to-five grading scale. What do administrators at UCLA and Notre Dame, however, know about what’s going on at the University of Texas, Oregon State or the University of South Florida?
The deck is already stacked in favor of those that have the oldest “reputation”.