Reaching for the Brass Ring: The U.S. News & World Report Rankings and Competition

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How Sound Is NSSE?: Investigating the Psychometric Properties of NSSE at a Public, Research-Extensive Institution (2011, background): “The popularity of the U.S. News & World Report rankings’ annual publication (2.2 million copies sold per year) attest to the importance of the rankings to both institutions and the public (Ehrenberg, 2003; Pike, 2004).”
Institutional Selectivity and Good Practices in Undergraduate Education: How Strong is the Link? (2006, background): “USNWR “bases its college and university rankings on a set of up to 16 measures of academic quality that fall into seven broad categories: academic reputation, student selectivity, faculty resources, student retention, financial resources, alumni giving, and . . . graduation rate performance” (Webste”
Academic quality, league tables, and public policy: A cross-national analysis of university ranking systems (2005, methodology): “Similarly Ehrenberg (Ehrenberg and Hurst 1996; Ehrenberg 2002b) discusses how administrators at Cornell University utilized rankings and data from the National Research Council quality assessment of 1993 to improve the Department of Sociology and Biology programs.”