U.S. News & World Report releases its annual college rankings today.

Articles that may give pause about taking the ratings too seriously.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/06/28/baylor

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/04/19/dean

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/02/27/carnegie

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/07/14/burke

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/08/17/ehrenberg

 

Link to 2007 study

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

 

Highest Acceptance Rates

From the same report, highest acceptance rates. Several with 100%,

Percent
Baker College of Flint (MI) 100
Bellevue University (NE) 100
Boston Architectural College 100
Davenport University (MI) 100
Glenville State College (WV)* 100
Humphreys College (CA) 100
Mountain State University (WV) 100
Oklahoma Christian U. 100
Oklahoma Panhandle State Univ. * 100
Pikeville College (KY) 100
Shawnee State University (OH)* 100
Southern Nazarene University (OK) 100
Tabor College (KS) 100
University of Maryland–University College * 100
University of Rio Grande (OH) 100
University of Texas–Brownsville * 100

 

Re: Still the highest ranked HBCU

U. of C. jumps to 9th in college rankings

Size counts, money counts, and maybe most important, how you count counts, the University of Chicago discovered as it engineered a dramatic jump in a national college ranking.

When the highly publicized U.S. News & World Report rankings are released Friday, the University of Chicago will come in ninth place after finishing last year at No. 15.

It's rare for a college to move more than a spot or two on the list, so U. of C.'s jump six places may raise some eyebrows.

But university officials said they realized they had been miscalculating several categories, including the number of small classes and educational spending, errors that led to a steady drop in position since it was last in the top 10 in 2002.

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