US News Report And Their Rankings

Perhaps the mercurial Mort Zuckerman should have listened to Ed Kosner and veered his prestige property US News & World Report more in the direction of a smart American version of The Economist rather than a vehicle for eccentric rankings of everything from colleges to hospitals. The magazine’s empirical methodology in its college rankings drew fire from The Annapolis Group at its annual June meeting attended by seventy one academic deans and eighty leading liberal arts college presidents.