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Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Mount Sinai medical schools withdraw from U.S. News rankings

Higher Ed Dive

The exodus follows Harvard medical school and a contingent of law schools rejecting the listings.

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After Law-School Revolt, Harvard Medical School Will Stop Cooperating With ‘U.S. News’ Rankings

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Ryan, The Boston Globe, Getty Images Harvard Medical School. Like the law-school leaders before him, the Harvard dean George Q. By Francie Diep. Daley said rankings create perverse incentives.

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More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools

Inside Higher Ed

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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Adapting to criticism and college opt-outs, U.S. News teases its latest rankings

University Business

Following harsh criticism from the nation’s top medical schools and the Department of Education, U.S. News and World Report is set to release its law and medical school: research rankings next week with an updated methodology and a reliance on public information from schools that now refuse to participate.

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U.S. News rankings out, digital marketing in?

University Business

When Yale Law School opted out in November, a flood of other law schools, such as U.C. Soon enough, medical schools from Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania quit it as well. Harvard’s schools of law and medicine both took the high road. Berkeley and Georgetown, followed suit.

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Stillman first HBCU to withdraw from U.S. News Best College Rankings

University Business

While more than 40 law schools and more than a dozen medical schools have stopped providing information to the organization, Stillman is the first Historically Black College or University making the move. Stillman College is joining a growing group of colleges and universities that are abandoning the U.S.

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Defending its rankings, U.S. News claims elite universities are evading accountability

University Business

In the past few months, more than a dozen top-ranked medical schools and at least 40 law schools, including those at Yale and Harvard, have publicly announced they will no longer submit data to U.S. 28) in the Wall Street Journal.