Columbia University declared it will not cooperate with the U.S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate colleges and universities, posing the latest challenge to a publication known for listings that shape the hierarchy of higher education.
around the country in recent months have announced they will no longer cooperate with U.S. News rankings in their fields. Columbia’s law and medical schools joined in those rebellions. Its nursing school also declined to cooperate with U.S. News.Now, Columbia is staking out a more defiant position on the undergraduate rankings. Officials said the process of correcting missteps they acknowledged last year had helped the university reach a new reckoning.
The officials added: “We are convinced that synthesizing data into a single U.S. News submission for its Best Colleges rankings does not adequately account for all of the factors that make our undergraduate programs exceptional.” The university said it will continue a practice it began last year of makingBut Columbia will not submit data to U.S. News or respond to its surveys aiming to gauge the reputation of undergraduate programs elsewhere.U.S.
“Helping students find the school that is right for them is the core of everything we do in our education vertical,” Eric Gertler, executive chairman and chief executive of U.S. News, said at the time.
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