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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tulane's free fall in its rankings have spooked their admissions team, so past will not necessarily be prologue.[/quote]

[b]It is laughable to think one university jumps 20-30 places in the ranking and another falls 20-30 spots in one year when nothing changed at either university. What changed was U.S. News & World Report ranking methodology.[/b]

The rankings now focus on how well schools help students from different backgrounds graduate, rather than traditional metrics like test scores, [b]class size*, [/b]and wealth. They have given increase weight to graduation rates of Pell Grant recipients. If you are not a Pell Grant recipient or student from a disadvantaged background does this type of ranking weighting priority really help you determine which school is a better fit?

Pell Grant will most likely be gone or greatly reduced by next year with the closing of the department of education a Trump administration priority. So next year US New & World Order Report rankings will be radically different with no actual physical, academic, administrative, number of applications, test scores, etc change taking place at the universities and colleges.

* Tulane has small class sizes and professors teach the classes. [/quote]

+100

It’s the reasons UCs do so well in rankings - a large % of low income students.

Does it mean these kids will get a superior education? They may or they may not. But the rankings are not an indicator of quality of education.

I wish people could look beyond them. And I wish colleges wouldn’t chase the rankings, but I understand the economic reasons for doing so. [/quote]

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