More BS College Ranking Shenanigans

US News & World Report flipped the script, and it screwed Princeton.

This year’s rankings put MIT at the top. I’m sure the person in charge of this at Princeton is seething because USNWR pushed a methodology change.

This year’s rankings introduced a criterion comparing graduates’ earnings by major four years after college with those who studied the same major nationwide. The measure includes only federal financial aid recipients, part of an effort to minimize the impact preexisting wealth and family connections could have on post-college earnings. It replaces a metric that measured graduates’ federal loan debt.

How dare they.

We should all be very upset.

Oh, right. None of this matters. No rankings list that is fundamentally for-profit, provides its criteria publicly with a wink, and simply asks the institutions to “self-report” on that criteria should matter one iota to you.

Not one neuron operation in your brain should be spent on this list.

Don’t worry, Princeton, you can self-report the proper data next year.