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Since colleges self-report data, the current system creates an incentive for schools to skew incoming students’ statistics to improve their rankings. TheU.S. News & World Report college listing is widely regarded as the definitive resource for college listings. Schools know that students view the rankings as the end all be all, which can create a vicious cycle of misrepresentation.
“It seems that because the rankings are of such great interest to the public it has gotten the attention of many [universities]. For that reason they want to participate and do well. It’s hard to completely generalize but many institutions feel like...reluctant participants in the process. But the concern of participating is not as great as the concern of not participating. They do it for fear of being placed at a competitive disadvantage [with other schools],” said Joseph Zolner, Director of Higher Education Programs at Harvard University, to TakePart.
Zolner also points out that people often don’t understand the criteria upon which these rankings are based. He says, “The consumer needs to understand the criteria used to derive these rankings. If it’s a number that comes out of nowhere, or you don’t know what it’s based on, it can be misleading. The consumer has to understand what’s behind
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that folks cheat, that is not new news. it seems more than students cheat in the ivory towers
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