Dive Brief:
- Princeton Review has stripped its top-25 ranking from the business school at the University of Missouri–Kansas City because the school submitted false data on its application.
- The school’s chancellor, Leo Morton, acknowledged that data had been fabricated for the 2011 through 2013 rankings applications, and asked for the school’s ranking to be removed, the Kansas City Star reported.
- The university’s Henry W. Bloch School of Management had placed in Princeton Review’s top 25 lists in 2011, 2012, and 2013, with its graduate entrepreneurship program ranked No. 24 in 2014 and the undergraduate program at No. 25.
Dive Insight:
Schools submitting false data to the U.S. News and World Report college rankings have been uncovered before, but this is the first time in the Princeton Review’s 34 years that a school’s ranking has been taken back. The school had inflated the number of student clubs, mentoring programs, and students enrolled. Kansas City Star articles in July first drew attention to the falsified numbers, then an independent audit confirmed what the newspaper had found, releasing its findings on Friday.