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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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Rankings and the line of best fit – the ultimate guide or a blunt instrument?

The PIE News

Love them or loathe them, university rankings carry weight. The sheer breadth of rankings can be surprising, from THE, QS, Shanghai Rankings, to the Private University Ranking – ASEAN, Studocu’s World University Ranking, Webometrics, and the Round University Rankings to name but a few.