Dive Summary:
- University of California, Davis, spent four years and $10,000 on a critique of U.S. News & World Report's scoring methods for rating medical schools.
- One big problem the university sees: The rankings rely on opinion, which leads to big swings in a school's ranking.
- The editor in charge of the magazine's rankings defended them and said the university misunderstands how the magazine uses data and draws its conclusions.
From the article:
... So why, if the methodology is imperfect, is the U.S. News & World Report numeric ranking so universally accepted by the public? First, there's nothing else to challenge its prominence in the market, UC Davis officials said. ...
