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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are the 2026 ranking factors and their relative weights:

National Universities 2026 Best Colleges Ranking Factor Weights
Indicator

2026 National Universities Weight for Schools With Usable SAT/ACT

Graduation rates

16%

First-year retention rates

Graduation rate performance

10%

Pell graduation rates

5.5%

Pell graduation performance

5.5%

College grads earning more than a high school grad

Borrower debt

Peer assessment

20%

Financial resources per student

Faculty salaries

Full-time faculty

Student-faculty ratio

Standardized tests

Citations per publication

1.25%

Field-Weighted Citation Impact

1.25%

Publication share in the Top 5% of Journals by CiteScore

Publication share in the Top 25% of Journals by CiteScore

0.5%

TOTAL

100[/quote]

Wow, itreally is alot of garbage in.  The citations criteria isn’t adjusted for size, so massively benefits the very large public institutions.  Further, they use a six year graduation rate, which is also pretty meaningless.  Still have the Pell grant nonsense as well.
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