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Abstract
How influential has the US News Best Colleges ranking been over the last twenty‐five years since it was first started in 1983? In what ways does this influence manifest itself? There is strong evidence of the impact of the US News rankings among consumers, prospective students and their parents, and the higher education establishment in the United States. Their influence has now gone global since the US News rankings, according to some, have been the model for what has become a worldwide trend. This paper will look at all of these effects.
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1. Available at ⟨http://www.educationconservancy.org/⟩.
2. The UCLA 2007 freshman survey results were based on the responses of 272,036 first‐time, full‐time students at 356 US baccalaureate colleges and universities. The data have been statistically adjusted to reflect the responses of the 1.4 million first‐time, full‐time students entering four‐year colleges and universities as freshmen in 2007. Since 1966 (the first year the survey was conducted), more than 13.4 million incoming first year students at 1,708 colleges and universities nationwide have participated. The UCLA Freshmen Survey is the largest and longest‐running survey of American college students.