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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

News Best Colleges rankings may be growing to include entire universities, but what these schools will do to market themselves effectively remains unanswered. When Yale Law School opted out in November, a flood of other law schools, such as U.C. Gone are the days of school tabling and postcards.

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

University Business

News & World Report , defended the publication’s contentious university rankings in an opinion piece published yesterday (Feb. 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.

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

University Business

Stillman College is joining a growing group of colleges and universities that are abandoning the U.S. 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.

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

University Business

Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. I was sure that more schools would join us,” said L.

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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses. The University of Wisconsin-Superior describes SBG as “a written description of what students are expected to know or be able to do by a certain time in their educational career.”