A Salute to a Columbia Math Professor

Columbia University’s historic slide down the US News & World Report annual college rankings — from it’s plum #2 position to a tie for #18 — was the result of one of the school’s own math professors shining a spotlight on innacurate data that the school presented to the publication … 

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2023 US News College Rankings

They’re out, they’re out. Read all about it. US News & World Report has released its latest iteration of its annual college ranking — and boy oh boy is it a juicy one. The headliner? No, it’s not Princeton University taking home the crown for the umpteenth time in a … 

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Columbia Expresses Contrition

Columbia University, which just a couple of months ago was removed from the annual US News & World Report college ranking for getting caught with its hand in the cookie jar misreporting data to the publication, has now sort of fallen on its sword. The school, which placed second in … 

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Free Speech at Columbia

It hasn’t exactly been Columbia University’s shining moment this year. A couple of months ago, the Ivy League institution, which was previously ranked second in a tie with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the annual US News & World Report college rankings, was removed from the list altogether for … 

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Does Columbia Deserve a Harsher Punishment?

Lots of folks are up in arms about how Columbia University misreported data to US News & World Report for its annually published rankings. As a reader of ours, Zach, recently wrote in, “What about Harvard, Yale and Princeton? How do we know what is true and not? The college … 

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A Class Action Suit Against Columbia

There’s been more fallout from Columbia University’s misreporting of data to US News & World Report. The school, which has announced it will not participate in next year’s ranking and which was removed from this year’s ranking after previously ranking in a tie for second, has been hit with a … 

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