Improving a School's U.S. News and World Report Ranking

Improving a School's U.S. News and World Report Ranking

In this paper we analyze the 2002 U.S. News and World Report rankings of universities offering graduate programs in engineering. We show that a reasonably simple model, whose independent variables are derived from the intuitive causal relationships among the various performance sub‐measures, can rep...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of engineering education (Washington, D.C.) D.C.), 2004-07, Vol.93 (3), p.259-263
Hauptverfasser: Tsakalis, Konstantinos S., Palais, Joseph C.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Colleges & universities
Correlation
Educational Quality
Engineering
Engineering Education
Expenditures
Graduate studies
Graduate Study
Predictor Variables
Ratings & rankings
school rankings
school-evaluation metrics
U.S. News and World Report
Validity
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Zusammenfassung:In this paper we analyze the 2002 U.S. News and World Report rankings of universities offering graduate programs in engineering. We show that a reasonably simple model, whose independent variables are derived from the intuitive causal relationships among the various performance sub‐measures, can represent the data. The results can be used to quantify the choice of an efficient policy for improving a school's ranking.
ISSN:1069-4730
2168-9830
DOI:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2004.tb00813.x