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US News Expands The Ranking Service

Tue, 08/14/2007 - 14:12.
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Anybody who has ever applied to a US university has at least heard the name of the US News & World Report. Their website of the US educational institutions' rankings is the most comprehensive and authoritative one. To give you a flavor, the US News ranking for business schools is equally, or maybe even more recognized than the one from the Financial Times.

It was a pleasant news to find-out that the authoritative publication has expanded its ranking outreach into other areas as well. The recently launched US News Rankings and Reviews website [rankingsandreviews.com] is in public beta, right now, featuring only car reviews. One can assume, however, that this is just a first step and we should expect more from the reliable source.

Stay tuned.

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rise up agaisnt the rankings

Submitted by zach (not verified) on Fri, 08/17/2007 - 23:52.

I'm sick of the rankings undermining American competitiveness by incentivizing institutional behavior that privileges the privileged, undermines equality and fairness, and diverts schools'; priorities from educating students to fudging figures. Am I just ranting here? Maybe. But I try to back it up with some more meat in my op-ed on the Huffington Post today.

Ouch

Submitted by irakli on Sat, 08/18/2007 - 01:25.

That's all nice and dandy but... are not you graduating from Yale? ;)

Now seriously, the whole buzz seems a little exaggerated. It's just a ranking for God's sake. Saying it undermines "American competitiveness" is really far-fetched. All it tries to do is give you an idea. Would you buy a car based only on rankings, without a test-drive? Probably not. Same thing for schools. You know what I mean?

Rankings are helpful if done

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 03:51.

Rankings are helpful if done correctly. Clearly, this newbeta car site from US News has a ways to go (incomplete, reviews not written very well) but the concept looks fairly strong. It takes a while to figure it out, but it appears as though it tries to bring all the auto sources under one tent, taking their best points and creating a ranking based on the sum. A good idea and it will be interesting to see if it improves.