Education and Social Science Library

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY
RANKINGS

CAUTION & CONTROVERSY: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WEB SOURCES

1. Levine, Shirley. (December, 1997). "Ignore College Rankings: Become an Educated Consumer".

2. Kersten, Glenn (January 2000). "Grading on the curve: College ratings and rankings".
[http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/por/features/99/collrank.html]

3. College Board (Summer 1997). Rankings and ratings.Enrollment Management Review 13(4).

4. Boyer, Ernest L. (2001). Considering College Quality. Greater Expectations National Panel, Briefing Paper #17. Association of American Colleges and Universities. Reprinted from Peterson's Guide to Four-Year Colleges, 1996.
[http://www.greaterexpectations.org/briefing_papers/bp17.html]

5. Peterson's/Thomson Learning. (August 26, 1999). College Rankings.
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6. Crissey, Michael (September 5, 1997). Changes in annual college guides fail to quell criticisms on their validity. Chronicle of Higher Education.
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7. Selingo, Jeffrey (November 7, 1997). A self-published college guide goes big-time, and educators cry foul. Chronicle of Higher Education.
[http://chronicle.com/free/v44/i11/11a00101.htm]

8. Sharp, William. (1995). Building reputations: how the game is played.
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9. Casper, Gerhard (Sept. 23, 1996). Letter to James Fallows.
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10. Casper, Gerhard (April 18, 1997). An alternative to the US News and World Report College survey.
[http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/970418rankings.html]

11. Gottlieb, Bruce ( August 31, 1999). Cooking the school books: How US News cheats in picking its best American colleges. Slate.
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12. Carey, Peter and Duffy, Brian (September 7, 1999). Dissension in the rankings: US News responds to Slate's "Best Colleges" story. Slate.
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14. Monk, Carl C. (February 18, 1998). Association of American Law Schools calls on US News & World Report to stop ranking Law Schools; Study challenges validity of magazine's system. AALS News release.

15. Klein, Stephen P. and Hamilton, Laura. (February 18, 1998). The validity of the US News & World Report rankings of ABA Law Schools.
[http://www.aals.org/reports/validity.html]

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17. Willard, Abbie, (1994). Law School Rankings: Through the Education and Employment Looking Glass.National Association for Law Placement.

18. Schatz, Martin (1993). What's Wrong With MBA Ranking Surveys? Management Research News 16(7), p.15-18.
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19. McCollum, Kelly. (February 16, 2000). 11 Major Universities Opt Out of Yahoo's Most-Wired Campus Competition. Chronicle of Higher Education.
[http://chronicle.com/free/2000/02/2000021602t.htm]

20. Anonymous (2003). Frequently Asked Questions about the US News College Rankings. US News & World Report.
[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/cofaq_brief.php]

21. Anonymous (2003). Ranking Methodology. US News & World Report.
[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/about/07method_brief.php]

22. Anonymous. (2003). Frequently Asked Questions about US News Graduate School Rankings. US News & World Report.
[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/about/faq_meth_brief.php]

23. Lemann, Nicholas. (Aug 31, 1998): "Universities Use Rankings Too." US News & World Report, v125 n8: p81.
[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/articles/980831/archive_004662.htm]

24. Where We Are. Texas A&M University.
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25. McKloskey, Lynn, Davis Van-Atta, David, and knepp, Marilyn (September 1997). Common Data Set. Association of Institutional Research.
[http://www.fsu.edu/~air/cdsalert.htm]