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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]USNWR knows nobody would buy the 2018 list if it looked exactly like the 2017, 2016, 2015, and so on lists, which all looked like:
1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Princeton

So I get the impression USNWR plays with the rankings a bit each year to keep everybody interested and remain relevant. Why? 
1. To sell more advertising space, magazines and online subscriptions, and 
2. To make themselves relevant to the U Chicagos and Browns of this world, who think they have a chance of moving up if they play things right.

So yep, USNWR is going to bump up Princeton one year, make Stanford #1 the next year, and so on.

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[b]Sounds reasonable but Princeton has been #1 for seven straight years.[/b]

PS. I’m waiting for USNWR to put DC’s school, Columbia, at #1, because that would totally show all those other uppity schools... oh, wait.... ;)[/quote][/quote]

And yet USNWR’s “Best Global Universities” ranking, obviously a different beast, goes
Harvard
MIT
Stanford

Go figure. It’s obviously an artifact of different measures and weights, but I don’t have the time to figure out how they’re different (and I wouldn’t expect any if you to do it, either). [/quote]

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