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Number of lists ranking colleges proliferate — and some don’t make sense

Washington Post

January 6, 2012

Colleges have long been rated on all sorts of things, but in the last few years the number of lists has exploded. Many are compiled by start-up Web sites, media outlets or marketing companies using creative mash-ups of statistics, pseudo-statistics and online reviews submitted by anyone with an e-mail address. It seems that anyone anywhere can rank anything using any information - and student newspapers will write about how their schools fared while national media outlets will blog it as news.

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