Forty more law schools, including 12 of the top 14 ranked in the country followed suit. Undergraduate schools, including the Rhode Island School of Design and Colorado College, also decided they would no longer participate in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. How important should rankings be for prospective students? We've assembled a panel of guests to unpack […]
If the U.S. Supreme Court bans the consideration of race in college admissions, enrollment of minority groups at selective colleges will likely stall or decline – even if the schools give more weight to factors such as class, a new study found. Students for Fair Admissions, the group suing Harvard and UNC, argues that class-conscious admissions would […]
With a combined 25 subjects to their names—more than all the institutions in the United Kingdom ranking #1 in an academic discipline—Harvard and MIT's prestige on the home turf and the world stage is irrefutable, based on QS' World University Rankings by Subject 2023.
The number of female-led colleges and universities around the world increased this year, and America is leading the charge. Of the 48 top-ranked schools around the world helmed by a woman, 16 represent the red, white and blue, according to Times Higher Education (THE).
Eric Gertler, CEO and executive chairman of U.S. News & World Report, defended the publication's contentious university rankings in an opinion piece published yesterday (Feb. 28) in the Wall Street Journal. In the past few months, more than a dozen top-ranked medical schools and at least 40 law schools, including those at Yale and Harvard, have publicly announced they will […]
With Colorado and Rhode Island College of Design opting out of U.S. News Best College Rankings, a flood of other schools may follow suit. Is your school prepared to market itself effectively in the digital, consumer-first age?
As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money, and EAB senior director Dr. R. Fleming Puckett believes that quitting philanthropy efforts in times of crisis will prove more costly than fueling schools' "revenue growth engine" with finances and resources.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced a package of major reforms to Florida's higher education system, including tighter controls on faculty tenure, the establishment of "civics institutes" at three universities and prohibitions on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Speaking at a news conference in Bradenton, the governor praised Florida's ranking by U.S. News & World […]
