The Future of the U.S. News College Rankings

While anti-rankings fervor only continues to grow, efforts to undermine or eliminate the college rankings have thus far been unsuccessful. It appears that the colleges most vocally fighting the rankings are, perhaps unsurprisingly, those which do not appear at the top of the lists. Meanwhile, while open to meaningful reform, many believe that the rankings indeed serve a valuable purpose by giving students one method of comparing colleges.

Wednesday August 15, 2007