Columbia University fell sharply in the annual college assessment after a faculty member questioned accuracy of its data.
The Ivy League institution had ranked No. 2 in the annual list in 2021, prompting one of its own professors to question the accuracy of the information the school had been supplying to U.S. News & World Report for its annual analysis, which was The magazine's annual rankings provide far more than bragging rights to the top universities, as the standings are used as recruitment tools to convince high school students to apply to highly selective colleges. For its part, U.S.
Thaddeus dug into the numbers and concluded that"several of the key figures supporting Columbia's high ranking are inaccurate, dubious or highly misleading." For instance, he noted that Columbia had reported 100% of its full-time faculty held either a Ph.D. or terminal degree, but he pointed out that 66 out of almost 1,000 faculty members had bachelor's or master's degrees as their highest credentials.
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