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[quote=Anonymous]I think USNWR rankings measure name recognition and trendiness as much as anything else. ( I am an academic, and every year I am asked by USNWR to fill out a questionnaire ranking the academic reputations of other universities, which essentially means I’m being asked to make guesses about institutions I know nothing about, based on random gossip. I refuse to fill the questionnaire out, but that just means that people who are completely untroubled by their ignorance and reliance on gossip are the ones submitting their questionnaires). If you understand the limitations of these rankings, it can be useful to know which colleges have national reputations, since, for better or for worse, that can translate into job and graduate school opportunities for students. But aside from that, they are a very poor measure of actual educational quality. [/quote]
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