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[quote=Anonymous]To answer a PP, tuition costs are not factored into US Blues & World Distort - it's one of the big criticisms of the report since it's driven behavior/practice at all colleges/univ in the country, since they all rely on rankings to drive recruitment. See article below. re: Northeastern's rise in rankings, I think spending boatloads to attract a more qualified participant pool (better grades, SATs etc) probably does make the school better. Don't you partially attend college/uni for the peer group? Smarter = better. But there's all sorts of probs with the race to game the USNWR rankings, not the least of which is how ridiculously expensive all schools now are.

How U.S. News college rankings promote economic inequality on campus

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/top-college-rankings-list-2017-us-news-investigation/

“I think U.S. News has done more damage to the higher education marketplace than any single enterprise that’s out there,” said F. King Alexander, president of Louisiana State University.

Alexander noted that a key to success in the rankings is paying higher faculty salaries and spending more per student overall, which drives up tuition in an era when sticker price has kept many low-income students from even applying to college.[/quote]

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