A woman walks on the Columbia University campus, Monday, March 9, 2020, in New York.

The Trouble With College Rankings

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 15, 2022

The influential college rankings from U.S. News & World Report were released earlier this week and Columbia University dropped from number 2 to 18.  Francie Diep, senior reporter covering money in higher education for The Chronicle of Higher Education, reports on the incident, which involved one of Columbia's own professors questioning the data, and what it reveals about the college ranking system as a whole.

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