The data submission time for the new U.S. News rankings is July 1, local time in the United States, and Columbia announced the news on Thursday night, Columbia University Provost Mary C. Boyce said in the announcement.

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On the evening of June 30th, US time, Columbia University officially announced that it will not participate in the 2023 U.S. News rankings. Dr. Thaddeus, a professor of the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University, published a 21-page analysis and commentary. , questioning the existence of "moisture" in the materials that allowed Columbia to rank second.

U.S. News The data submission time for the new ranking is July 1 (Friday), local time in the United States, and Columbia announced the news on Thursday night. Columbia University Provost Mary C. Mary C. Boyce said in the announcement. "Columbia University leaders take these concerns seriously, and we immediately began a review of our data collection and submission processes."

"The ongoing review is a matter of integrity," she continued. "We will not take any shortcuts to correct it."

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As for when it will re-participate in the U.S. News rankings, Columbia officials have not yet given a definite answer.

Columbia “fake” USNews ranking?

Michael Thaddeus, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University, in an article titled "An Investigation of the Facts Behind Columbia's U.S. News Ranking" looked at the size of undergraduate classes, the proportion of teachers with doctoral degrees, and the proportion of full-time teachers. Ratios, teacher-student ratios, teaching investment, graduation rates and other outcome categories compare the differences between data reported by Columbia University in different channels. Although the differences are significant, none of them are favorable to Columbia's ranking.

Michael Thaddeus

The entire report is tens of thousands of words long and contains a huge amount of information. It lists six types of fraud in the data provided by Columbia University. A large amount of data was provided to prove that the data provided by Columbia University to U.S. News was inconsistent with the actual situation.

It is reported that the data sources on which U.S. News’ university rankings are based are all provided by the universities themselves. Relying on the data provided by Columbia, despite the fluctuations, the overall trend is showing an upward trend. From 18th in the United States in 1988 to 2nd in 2022 (tied with Harvard University and MIT ).

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