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U.S. News college rankings problematic

Athens, Ga., Banner-Herald - Editorial

July 3, 2009

While U.S. News & World Report doesn't release the data it receives from colleges, it's probably a safe bet that any number of other university and college presidents did just as University of Georgia's Adams and University of Florida's Machen did, or even might have taken steps as questionable as Clemson. While such gaming of the system probably doesn't do much to skew results of the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings, it does point to the problematic nature of those rankings.

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