Clemson Staffer Outlines College Rankings Manipulation

xzvf writes "A disgruntled Clemson University staffer shows how US News and World Report college rankings are manipulated. Techniques include bad-mouthing other schools, filling out applications from highly qualified students that never intended to apply, and lying about class size and professor salaries." The school, naturally, denies that anything unethical went on. The New York Times has a more detailed article, which links to this first-person account of the presentation.

Comments

Re:Schools == Business

[nomadic]

Well it's not like the high earners automatically benefit NYU. A lot of those high earners rack up a huge amount of loans. And I think a lot of schools use law and business schools to subsidize other departments, which I think is shady as hell.

Of course, where NYU DOES gets its money from attracting a tremendous number of wealthy, white, suburban kids who want to live the "New York lifestyle." The kinds of kids who get plenty of money from their parents for living expenses but still dress like street people and play their guitar (badly) in the subway for spare change while they major in studio art or film.