The head of U.S. News and World Report said in response to the dropout of several medical and law schools across the country, the organization is one of the only places where it can compare institutions based on the factors that matter most to students. I said there is.
Eric Gertler, CEO and Executive Chairman of US News and World Report, said: editorial Earlier this week in The Wall Street Journal, students said they would struggle to find accurate and comprehensive information to compare potential colleges without rankings.
“Our rankings don’t capture all the nuances. Academic institutions are neither monolithic nor static. Comparing them across common data sets can be difficult,” says Gertler. says. “But we reject the paternalistic view of our critics that students are somehow unable to decide for themselves which schools are best suited from this information.”
Both Harvard and Yale law schools announced they would drop them from the rankings in November.
Since then, most of the country’s top law schools have dropped out of the rankings, joining Harvard and Yale, and several medical schools, including Harvard, have also dropped out based on issues with how results are determined and how rankings are thought. doing. .
Gertler criticized “elite” schools for leaving the rankings, saying their decisions did not reflect the majority of institutions. Nearly 75% of schools said they would submit again in 2023, but engagement among medical schools rose this year.
“Our rankings do not prevent any school from pursuing greater diversity and transparency. not.
“Instead, elite schools are opposed to using a common dataset for all schools because our rankings are beyond their control and held accountable by an independent third party. Because they don’t want to be taken away,” Gertler continued.
The ranking has also been criticized by federal officials, including Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, who have called for its importance.he Said In August, it said the system’s rankings were a “joke” and denounced institutions that focused on boosting the rankings.
He reportedly event The Harvard Law School said Wednesday that the institution “should stop worshiping at the false altar of US News and World Report.”
The journal’s op-ed is just one of the ways US News hit back at its critics this week. On Wednesday, he ran a full-page ad in The Boston Globe and called on law schools to release data about him in an open letter to Cardona in The New York Times. report.
