Columbia University has fallen to No. 18 on the new U.S. News Best Colleges list, months after a math professor questioned the integrity of data the school submitted for the well-known rankings.
The Columbia University campus. The university's ranking in a widely cited U.S. News report fell drastically after its data was questioned by a professor.The Columbia University campus. The university's ranking in a widely cited U.S. News report fell drastically after its data was questioned by a professor.
from an internal review of its data underway since this summer, finding some of its data on class sizes had been “reported incorrectly” to U.S. Newsand that Columbia’s methodology for determining faculty with terminal degrees led to cases of overreporting. Michael Thaddeus, the Columbia math professor whose analysis sparked a chain of events that resulted in his own university’s demotion, said the U.S. News list was ridiculous to begin with.
U.S. News said it used data from a range of alternative sources — including from the federal government — in Columbia’s latest ranking.
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