The Columbia University campus in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan.Listen to article
Columbia University won’t submit information to be included in next year’s U.S. News & World Report college ranking, citing a review it launched in response to a faculty member’s public concerns about data the school provided in the past. The New York Ivy League school was tied with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the No. 2 Best National University in last year’s ranking. The list is considered by many prospective students as a definitive guide to the country’s top schools, and institutions had a July 1 deadline to submit their newest data. Columbia said it won’t be able to complete its review in time.
These rankings are stupid. Applicants should make informed decisions based in the information not some idiotic ranking created by a publication to sell advertising.