U.S. News & World Report announced Tuesday it was moving two colleges to the "unranked" category Robert Morse, director of data research for U.S. N...

Freaking out over impossible acceptance odds? Never fear! There are colleges where there is literally no way you would not get in. US News and Wor...

The list can sway student decisions and, of course, cause controversy among our fine institutions and academic leaders. The question future freshmen and their families must ask regarding the list is: "What does it all mean?"

The 2013 edition of the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings is out, with stability at the very top of both the National Universities and N...

In a culture where college rankings hold serious sway, cases of discrepancies and outright manipulations in self-reported data are a big deal -- as well they should be.

It's become an American pastime: ranking our top colleges and universities. Everyone -- parents, teens and alums -- are drawn to these lists with a curiosity that borders on egocentric.

This "celebritization" of higher education may have earned U.S. News a handsome profit over the years, but it says little about how well these institutions actually perform their primary charge: educating students.

At the very moment when voices are being raised all across our country to ensure our national competitiveness by educating the broadest, most diverse population we've ever had, U.S. News rewards institutions for the number of students whom they can reject.

Is your school worth its price tag? Besides ranking universities and liberal arts schools by their overall luster, U.S. News and World Report also ...

The annual college rankings from U.S. News & World Report were released Tuesday, and you'll find plenty of news coverage and commentary about the influence (or hype) of this annual guide.

Princeton University tied Harvard University as the top-ranked National University in U.S. News & World Report's 2012 rankings of Best Colleges. Last ...

The college search process should begin with what's important to you. Develop your own set of criteria and use that as a basis to evaluate the relevance of the many college rankings that are out there today.

College rankings are out -- and in such great numbers that it's hard to know where to start. To help with this daunting task, here are a few prominent...

Even if every school criticizes the validity of the U.S. News & World Report college rating system, these institutions still spend a great deal of money and time on trying to raise their rankings

Washington Monthly seeks to provide an alternative to the barrage of fairly homogeneous college rankings that are released every August. To do so, the...

Students would be well-advised to look not just as the flashy top 50 lists of best colleges and universities, but also to scrutinize the less sexy but equally or more important list of average student debt-load.

To determine which schools would place on its 2011 list of best liberal arts colleges, U.S. News and World Report analyzed 266 schools for reputation,...

Forbes does them. So does the Princeton Review. Washington Monthly is in on the game. And, of course, there's the granddaddy of them all: U.S. News an...

**SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS** Harvard pulled ahead of Ivy League rival Princeton in the latest edition of the influential U.S. News & World Report uni...

A handful of college presidents are declining to participate in the rituals associated with the annual U.S. News and World Report college rankings, Th...

The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) recently issued a statement urging law school deans and faculty members to work with the American Bar Ass...