Thursday, June 5, 2014

Re-Evaluating the College Rankings Game

The conference, which was sponsored by the rankings company QS and the International Rankings Expert Group, a nonprofit organization of ranking groups and universities from Eastern Europe, China and some countries of the former Soviet Union, devoted several sessions to attempts to connect rankings to the global job market. Proposals included regular surveys of students at six-month, one-year and 10-year intervals after graduation.
Jennifer Engle, an official at the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a nonprofit lobbying organization in Washington, said that deciding which data are relevant was just one of the difficulties with President Obama’s proposal, announced in August last year, to put the federal government in the ranking business so “Congress can tie federal student aid to college performance” while students can “maximize their federal aid at institutions providing the best value.”

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