Getting on the Front Page: Organizational Reputation, Status Signals, and the Impact of U.S. News and World Report on Student Decisions

By Nicholas A. Bowman, Michael N. Bastedo. 2009

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Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings (2013, methodology): “Griffith and Rask (2007) use student-level data to show the effect of rankings on matriculation decisions; Bowman and Bastedo (2009) show the nonlinear effect of several outcome variables on being ranked in the top 50.”
Running in Place: Low-Income Students and the Dynamics of Higher Education Stratification (2011, background): “Moving onto the “front page” of USNWR rankings in any category provides a substantial boost in the following year’s admissions indicators (Bowman & Bastedo, 2009).”
College Rankings as an Interorganizational Dependency: Establishing the Foundation for Strategic and Institutional Accounts (2011, background): “Prior studies have found that rankings have a strong influence on students as they make choices to enroll at research universities ( Bowman and Bastedo 2009; Meredith 2004; Monks and Ehrenberg 1999).”
What are We Talking About When We Talk About Holistic Review? Selective College Admissions and its Effects on Low-SES Students (2018, background): “…industry among wealthy families (McDonough, 1994; Weis et al., 2014), the arms race of extracurricular activities (Friedman, 2013; Weininger, Lareau, & Conley, 2015), and the influence of college rankings (Bastedo & Bowman, 2009; Bowman & Bastedo, 2009; McDonough, Antonio, Walpole, & Perez, 1998).”
U.S. News & World Report College Rankings: Modeling Institutional Effects on Organizational Reputation (2009, background): “Over the past decade, studying the effects of the rankings published in the U.S. News & World Report has become a minor industry (Bowman and Bastedo 2009; Elsbach and Kramer 1996; Griffith and Rask 2007; Martins 2005; McDonough et al. 1998; Meredith 2004; Monks and Ehrenberg 1999; Volkwein and…”
Access Without Equity (2012, background): “…considerations involve the anticipated economic returns, Access Without Equity institutional prestige, and degree completion and graduate school placement rates associated with such institutions (Bound, Hershbein, & Long, 2009; Bowman & Bastedo, 2009; Frank & Cook, 1995; Hoxby & Long, 1998).”
Anchoring effects in world university rankings: exploring biases in reputation scores (2011, background): “…reputation are becoming vanishingly small over time (Bastedo and Bowman 2010; Stake 2006) and that rankings are highly stable over time (Bowman and Bastedo 2009; Usher and Savino 2006), it is difficult to maintain the fantasy that reputational scores are independent from the rankings themselves.”