[SeekAndFind]

The U.S. News rankings never control for the racial composition of the students in the various states.

[Savage Beast]

When one sacrifices TRUTH for ANYTHING, one is headed down, and the results will be bad.

[I want the USA back]

There are certain truths that must never be allowed to be spoken! you may not even acknowledge them, or mention that they exist! You must always solemnly affirm the dogma of leftism or you will be ruined.

[Reno89519]

Advertising is all this accomplishes. Not factual, comparable information.

[Will88]

The two authors focus on the U.S. News and World Report "Best Schools"

The USNWR rankings can be interesting to look at, but actually they tell us very little. In their college rankings, we know some Ivy League school will usually be #1, and a bunch of state schools will be #250 +++. The gap from #1 to #250+ is enormous and tells us little or nothing about the schools involved.

Some sort of really objective set of measures and rankings of all schools on a scale of 1 to 10 would tell us a lot more.

[ModelBreaker]

The article is available for download at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3185152

[DungeonMaster]

The entire education system has been corrupted. Home school and forget college unless you need a rug.