Comments on: US News 2009 College Rankings http://www.collegeadmissionspartners.com/college-selection/2009-usnews-college-rankings/ Trying to find the right college for you? Don't have adequate college admissions counseling available at your school? Looking for news (and some ramblings) about the whole college search process? You have come to the right place. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:18:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Henry http://www.collegeadmissionspartners.com/college-selection/2009-usnews-college-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-573 Henry Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:31:48 +0000 http://www.collegeadmissionspartners.com/?p=914#comment-573 U.S. News rankings are basically a beauty contest that favor most monied institutions. It says practically nothing about the quality level of outputs at a given institution. Things such as research, the dollar value of competitive research grants won, etc. Washington Monthly in some ways is as flawed as the U.S. News garbage, but they at least address the very important categories listed above. If you added an appropriate measure to the U.S. News equation, the results would be far different. U.S. News rankings are basically a beauty contest that favor most monied institutions. It says practically nothing about the quality level of outputs at a given institution. Things such as research, the dollar value of competitive research grants won, etc.

Washington Monthly in some ways is as flawed as the U.S. News garbage, but they at least address the very important categories listed above.

If you added an appropriate measure to the U.S. News equation, the results would be far different.

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