US Information & World Report delays rankings launch amid questions from colleges

April 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Information & World Report on Friday stated it should delay the discharge of its graduate faculty rankings—together with its carefully watched annual checklist of finest regulation colleges—by one week.

The checklist had been slated to publish on April 18 however will now come out on April 25, U.S. Information stated in an announcement.

“This 12 months, we obtained an unprecedented variety of inquiries from colleges and are devoting further time to comprehensively deal with these inquiries,” the assertion stated. The corporate didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

The delay comes as U.S. Information is below unprecedented stress from regulation colleges, medical colleges and undergraduate faculties which have stated they’ll not present it with knowledge for the rankings.

Practically 1 / 4 of regulation colleges this 12 months declined to supply U.S. Information with any inside knowledge for its rankings, together with 12 of the highest 14 colleges, which stated the publication’s methodology damage pupil range and affordability. In response to the boycott, U.S. Information overhauled the methodology of the regulation faculty rankings to rely largely on ABA knowledge, to position extra weight on bar passage and employment, and to scale back the emphasis on Legislation College Admission Check scores.

U.S. Information releases its rankings to graduate colleges not less than one week forward of publication, permitting them time to overview the lists on the situation that the faculties don’t reveal the contents. That course of this 12 months led to extra questions than regular, it stated.

It’s not the primary time U.S. Information has needed to modify its rankings plans. It adjusted the regulation colleges rankings twice in 2021 earlier than the checklist was made public attributable to errors.

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