Gaming College Ranking

[Andy Nguyen]

An admission director at Claremont McKenna recently got fired for fudging the numbers it submitted to US News College Ranking.
I find this interesting read
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/education/gaming-the-college-rankings.html

 

[physEcon]

I wonder how endemic this is. I find it hard to believe only one school has done this.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

The NYT article points out several schools that done similar things in the past. It's just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[purplyboy]

How would magazines check data submitted? It would take too much manpower to do so. Stuff like employment statistics, anyone can make them up. After I graduated college, my college never contacted me about employment data.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Blatant lying about placement stats from law schools is a huge, huge problems that have been going on for years. It's so bad that congress is investigating.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203537304577031962440836218.html

 

[myampol]

Also, some law schools have been known to recruit students by awarding them "merit scholarships" which they can retain only if they maintain a specified grade point average -- without informing them that the school's rigid grading curve ensures that many such students will lose their scholarship after the first year, forcing them to pay full tuition for the remainder of their education.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/business/law-school-grants.html

 

[Ken Abbott]

There are too many law schools producing too many lawyers. Those lawyers now can't find jobs in law. There used to be five quant finance programs. Now there are over 100. That is where we're heading.

 

[euroazn]

There are still only so many good ones though.