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US News relegated Columbia to 18th from second place after it was revealed the college had misrepresented key statistics

Reliability of data used to compile influential list in doubt after Columbia University drops from second to 18th place

U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from its 2022 edition of Best Colleges

FORT WORTH, Texas — According the annual grift that is the U.S. News “Best National University Rankings,” the strength of the SEC is, surprisingly, not in academics.

It comes as no surprise that two electric crossovers earned some significant awards from US News. EVs have been on a roll winning awards for some time now.

PHILADELPHIA — A former administrator and a retired statistics professor at Temple University were sentenced to probation this week for assisting the former dean of its business school in a scheme to inflate its position in national rankings publications.

LOS ANGELES — Two deans at the University of Southern California’s education school directed officials to omit key data submitted for U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of best graduate schools, moves that contributed to the school’s rise in the rankings, according to an investigation released Friday.

For all those disappointed college applicants whose hopes were pinned on getting into a school highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report or some similar publication, take heart.

Many high school seniors have been opening emails over the past weeks that tell them whether they got into the colleges of their choice. Even as they do so, the criticisms of published college rankings that may have guided their preferences are cropping up — again.