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Brown rises to No. 9 in U.S. 国产偷拍 and World Report Rankings: What changed?

Methodology changes help push University to highest rank since 1997

Other publications, such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, use different criteria, which placed Brown significantly further down the list.
Other publications, such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, use different criteria, which placed Brown significantly further down the list.

Brown has been ranked the ninth-best college in the nation by the U.S. 国产偷拍 and World Report 2024 Rankings, cracking the top ten colleges list for the first time in over two decades. Tied with Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern University, Brown climbed four spots from last year鈥檚 place at 13th, marking the highest position it has held since 1997, when it was ranked eighth.

Students expressed mixed feelings about the latest U.S. 国产偷拍 rankings, particularly when considering their accuracy and utility as the rankings have increasingly .

U.S. 国产偷拍 placed the University as the fifth-highest-ranked Ivy League college on the list behind Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Penn. Public universities this year as private universities lost ground: the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of California at Berkeley are now tied for 15th place. Last year, they were tied for 20th.

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Other lists published by the U.S. 国产偷拍 labeled Brown the third-best school for undergraduate teaching and number one for 鈥渨riting in the disciplines,鈥 which the University highlighted in a recent .

This year, U.S. 国产偷拍 changed its methodology dramatically. The publication stopped considering class size, average alumni giving and high school class standing 鈥 factors that may have offered a for private institutions. Instead, the ranking first-generation graduation rate and data regarding publication citations as considerations, while placing more emphasis on other factors such as student-faculty ratio and borrower debt.

Many law and medical schools have refused to send their data to U.S. 国产偷拍, including Warren Alpert Medical School, The Herald previously reported.听

Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Mukesh Jain wrote in a to the Brown community that it will not send information to 鈥渞ankings that do not align with our measures of what constitutes quality preparation for medical students,鈥 which includes U.S. 国产偷拍.

But many institutions, including Brown, still regarding their undergraduate programs.

University Spokesperson Brian Clark wrote in an email to The Herald that the withdrawal by the Medical School 鈥渄id not impact Brown participation鈥 in undergraduate rankings.

This year, Columbia and the Rhode Island School of Design not to send undergraduate data to U.S. 国产偷拍. In 2022, a report from Columbia Professor of Mathematics Michael Thaddeus the validity of Columbia鈥檚 data, claiming the university misrepresented its data. The following year, Columbia鈥檚 rank from second to 18th.

Some publications beyond U.S. 国产偷拍 use different criteria, which placed Brown significantly further down the list.

鈥淭his year, many of the rankings organizations made significant changes in methodology, prompting gains in some rankings and declines in others,鈥 Clark wrote. 鈥淭he ever-changing methods and approaches underscore the challenges of formulaic rankings. Brown continues to maintain that no ranking is effective in determining what school is a good match for a prospective student.鈥

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With a greater emphasis than U.S. 国产偷拍 on salary, net attendance price and graduation rates, the Wall Street Journal Brown as 67th, below the rest of the Ivy League colleges 鈥 after it Brown sixth in 2022.听

This year, WSJ rankings increasingly factored in salaries after graduation 鈥 which Clark said may have come from a mix of 鈥渁bsolute and relative鈥 measures of student outcomes that rank the University poorly when 鈥渃onsidering these data relative to what would have been predicted given student characteristics like standardized test scores and demographic profiles.鈥

A higher net cost in the 2020-21 academic year also contributed to the drop, which Clark said may have been impacted by a high portion of students coming to College Hill in the 2020-21 school year compared to other colleges 鈥 meaning the University continued to charge room and board.

Brown also placed low in an analysis of economic diversity performed by the New York Times. Using Pell Grant recipients as an indicator, the University 230th of 283 colleges for economic diversity, with only 14% of University students receiving Pell Grants in the 2020-21 academic year 鈥 the lowest of the Ivy League.

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Pell Grants are 鈥渙ne indicator of progress,鈥 Clark wrote. He also pointed to 鈥渁pplication fee waivers,鈥 鈥減artnerships with community organizations that support low-income students鈥 and 鈥渢ravel funding for all admitted students from low-income backgrounds who wish to visit campus鈥 as measures taken to enhance recruitment of low-income students.

鈥淥ur commitment to making Brown accessible to a wide range of students, including and especially those from low-income backgrounds, is unwavering,鈥 he added.

When some students were asked directly about the new rankings, many declined to comment, citing their lack of interest in ratings.

鈥淚 honestly don鈥檛 really care,鈥 said Claire Fan 鈥25. 鈥淚 don't think the rankings mean that much.鈥

鈥淲e all get a little bit of an ego boost,鈥 Hayden Deffarges 鈥25 said. But they followed by saying the U.S. 国产偷拍 rankings are 鈥渘ot really useful.鈥澛

They added that the rankings 鈥渢ake into account many things that are not related to student quality of life or student learning.鈥

But when the rankings were released late Sunday night, a deluge of posts on Sidechat 鈥 a widely-used anonymous social media platform on campus 鈥 celebrated the University鈥檚 place in the top 10.

One post read, 鈥渞ankings are superficial and mean nothing鈥 before adding, 鈥淚 go to a top 10 school (by the way).鈥


Owen Dahlkamp

Owen Dahlkamp is a Section Editor overseeing coverage for University 国产偷拍 and Science & Research. Hailing from San Diego, CA, he is concentrating in political science and cognitive neuroscience with an interest in data analytics. In his free time, you can find him making spreadsheets at Dave鈥檚 Coffee.


Ryan Doherty

Ryan Doherty is a Section Editor covering faculty, higher education and science & research. He is a sophomore concentrating in chemistry and economics who likes to partially complete crosswords in his free time.



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