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by Ben Unglesbee
September 10, 2013 at 1:31 p.m.
KU moves up in U.S. News and World Report rankings
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Kansas University pushed ahead by a few nose lengths in the 2014 U.S. News and World Report rankings of best public universities.
KU announced today that it had moved to the 47th spot in the rankings, up from the 51st spot in last year's list. This year the university is in a six-way tie for 47th with Iowa State, North Carolina State, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Oklahoma and University of Tennessee.
In rankings for national universities, KU was in an eight-way tie for 101st, up from 106th in last year's list, according to U.S. News and World Report spokesperson Lucy Lyons.
The rankings are based on the high school performance of students who attend, graduation rates and other data. U.S. News recently tweaked their methodology to give more weight to graduation rates over college selectivity in its admissions.
For anyone who wants to move ahead in the official rankings of Heard on the Hill readers, you can fast track to a sweet spot by sending KU news tips to bunglesbee@ljworld.com.
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Comments
yourworstnightmare 6 months ago
KU's low admissions standards and high acceptance rate (~93%) really hurt KU in this ranking.
chootspa 6 months ago
Yup. The rankings are all a bunch of arbitrary crap, anyway. In this day and age, they'd do better to make an interactive app that allowed you to prioritize the things that you felt were most important.
63BC 6 months ago
Regents have already voted to tighten admissions standards. That will also help with retention and graduation rates which are big factors in rankings. Believe the new standards take effect in '15.
irtnog2001 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Agree with Chootspa these rankings are at best virtually worthless and at worst misleading to high school students trying to determine which colleges to apply to.
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