Stillman College is pulling out of one of the nation’s most popular college rankings, which officials called “flawed” and “misleading.”
Most of Stillman’s students are African American, female and eligible for Pell grants, and the college has over 100 students who are parents.
The report weighs student outcomes the heaviest, at 40%, using six-year graduation rates and other factors like graduate debt. Researchers say they collect most of their data directly from schools, but use similar guidelines to other federal databases.According to the 2022-23 U.S. News and World Report, an average of 23% of students graduated from Stillman within six years. That’s compared to 27% reported by the National Center for Education Statistics.
“The rankings – based predominantly on graduation rate – do not explain Stillman’s drop in retention as a factor of student athletes’ transferring; instead, it is used as a measure of quality for our institution’s academic programs,” Warrick wrote in her announcement. , withdrew from the U.S. News and World rankings this year, according to Inside Higher Ed. Several top law and medical schools also recently pulled out of the rankings.that colleges should not worship at “the false altar” of the annual rankings. In 2022, he called the rankings a “joke.”
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