Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito View Post
What I find very disconcerting is the unethical behavior by universities in that article. Nothing in life worth having is free & easy, but that kind of deceit should be criminal.
Undergraduate institutions do the same thing. US News rankings have been incredibly detrimental to the higher education system. Rankings are extremely important for the profitability of the institutions, and thus the institutions do everything they can to make them work in their favor. Some schools have tried to overcome this by refusing to give US News information, but it's a prisoner's dilemma situation. It won't work unless everyone does it, and no one wants to take the risk.