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Understanding the U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” 2007: How it Works, Problems, and Implications for Institutional Research Matthew J. Hendrickson Ball State University
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U.S. News & World Report: Factor Weights ,[object Object],[object Object]
Definitions Morse & Flanigan, 2007 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Justifications for Rankings From Morse & Flanigan (2007) unless otherwise noted. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Cheating the Rankings Ehrenberg (2005) and Woodbury (2003) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Implications for IR ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Understanding the U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” 2007

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