Resources

BUSINESS SCHOOLS

Articles

Schatz, Martin (1993). What’s Wrong With MBA Ranking Surveys? Management Research News 16(7), p.15-18.

Devinney, Timothy. Dowling, Grahame R. Perm-Ajchariyawong, Nidthida. The Business Schools Rankings Game.

Rankings

The B School 100’s “Best Business Schools” (2003)

Business Week’s 2006 Full-Time MBA Program Rankings

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

Articles

Anonymous (2003). Frequently Asked Questions about the US News College Rankings. US News & World Report.

Anonymous (2003). Ranking Methodology. US News & World Report.

Boyer, Ernest L. (2001). Considering College Quality. Greater Expectations National Panel, Briefing Paper #17. Association of American Colleges and Universities. Reprinted from Peterson’s Guide to Four-Year Colleges, 1996.

Carey, Peter and Duffy, Brian (September 7, 1999). Dissension in the rankings: US News responds to Slate’s “Best Colleges” story. Slate.

Casper, Gerhard (Sept. 23, 1996). Letter to James Fallows.

Casper, Gerhard (April 18, 1997). An alternative to the US News and World Report College survey.

Crissey, Michael (September 5, 1997). Changes in annual college guides fail to quell criticisms on their validity. Chronicle of Higher Education.

Gottlieb, Bruce ( August 31, 1999). Cooking the school books: How US News cheats in picking its best American colleges. Slate.

Lemann, Nicholas. (August 31, 1998). “Universities Use Rankings Too.” US News & World Report, v125 n8: p81.

McCollum, Kelly. (February 16, 2000). 11 Major Universities Opt Out of Yahoo’s Most-Wired Campus Competition. Chronicle of Higher Education.

Selingo, Jeffrey (November 7, 1997). A self-published college guide goes big-time, and educators cry foul. Chronicle of Higher Education.

Sharp, William. (1995). Building reputations: how the game is played.

Rankings

CampusGrotto.com’s “Top 10 Best Colleges to Attend”

HispanicOnline.com’s “Top 25 Colleges and Universities for Hispanics”

uLink.com’s “Top 100 Colleges and Universities”

GRADUATE SCHOOLS

Articles

Anonymous. (2003). Frequently Asked Questions about US News Graduate School Rankings.

Rankings

Social Psychology Network’s “Ranking of U.S. Psychology Ph.D. Programs by Area”

LAW SCHOOLS

Articles

Field Jr., Thomas G. (1996). IP Specialty Rankings in US News & World Report. Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Klein, Stephen P. and Hamilton, Laura. (February 18, 1998). The validity of the US News & World Report rankings of ABA Law Schools.

Choosing Wisely: NAPIL’s Public Interest Guide to Law Schools. Michael Caudell-Feagan. National Association for Public Interest Law, 1992.

Getting Into Law School Today. Thomas H. Martinson and David P. Waldherr. New York: Macmillan, 1994.

The Insider’s Guide to the Top Fifteen Law Schools. Cynthia L. Cooper. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Law School Companion. Paul M. Lisnek, Steven I. Friedland, and Chris M. Salamone. New York: Random House, Inc., 1995.

The Student Access Guide to the Best Law Schools. Ian Van Tuyl. New York: Random House, 1995.

Links

Top-Law-Schools.com

Rankings

Brian Leiter’s Law School Rankings Website

The Law School 100’s “Best Law Schools” (2008)

Hylton Rankings of American Law Schools (2007-08)

Thomas E. Brennan’s “Judging the Law Schools: Overall Rankings 2007″

Vault.com’s “Top 25 Law Schools (2008)”