Harvard Medical School volition nary longer enactment successful the U.S. News & World Report’s yearly rankings, the school’s dean announced Tuesday, becoming the 2nd of Harvard's postgraduate schools to boycott the magazine.
The determination follows the withdrawal of apical instrumentality schools from the magazine’s rankings, including Harvard Law School successful November 2022. In a missive to affiliates, Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley ’82 said helium was inspired by “the courageous and bold moves by my respected workfellow Dean John Manning of Harvard Law School and those of adjacent instrumentality schools.”
Daley said the determination to retreat from the U.S. News rankings was based connected fairness and equity concerns, citing incentives to chopped backmost connected assistance to students with the astir fiscal need.
“Rankings cannot meaningfully bespeak the precocious aspirations for acquisition excellence, postgraduate preparedness, and compassionate and equitable diligent attraction that we strive to foster successful our aesculapian acquisition programs,” Daley wrote. “As unintended consequences, rankings make perverse incentives for institutions to study misleading oregon inaccurate data, acceptable policies to boost rankings alternatively than nobler objectives, oregon divert fiscal assistance from students with fiscal request to high-scoring students with means successful bid to maximize ranking criteria.”
In the astir caller U.S News ranking, HMS ranked No. 1 for research. The mag announced successful aboriginal January that it would continue to fertile boycotting instrumentality schools utilizing an updated methodology.
This communicative volition beryllium updated.
—Staff writer Ammy Yuan tin beryllium reached astatine ammy.yuan@thecrimson.com.
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