Harvard Medical School joined the ranks of a number of other higher education institutions boycotting the decades-old U.S. News and World Report ranking list.
Harvard provides the latest sign that the influence of the longstanding higher education rankings juggernaut is wavering.this week that the institution will no longer participate in the list, writing that the rankings could not "meaningfully reflect" the standards of the school.
The dean likely "recognized that a boycott of the U.S. News can only work if it comes from the top," Colin Diver, former president of Reed College, which does not participate in the rankings, said."That brought a lot more national attention to the weaknesses, the flaws, the foibles in the ranking system," Diver, who also is the former dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, previously told Axios.
"That is why we have consistently stated that the rankings should be one component in a prospective student’s decision-making process," he said.There are always going to be rankings, but it remains to be seen if other lists and mechanisms to rank schools emerge, Diver said.
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