U Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine to exit U.S. News rankings - Crain's Chicago Business

The University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine volition beryllium withdrawing from the U.S. News & World Report’s medical-school ranking, joining a increasing database of elite aesculapian schools led by Harvard to nary longer supply information to the publication. 

In an email to students and faculty, the schoolhouse said the existent work lacks “transparent, meaningful, and usable data” that aesculapian students deserve. 

“This determination is based connected our judgement that the existent methodology raises heavy concerns astir inequity perpetuated by the misuse of metrics that neglect to seizure the prime oregon outcomes of aesculapian acquisition for those who astir request these data: applicants to aesculapian school,” said Dr. Mark Anderson, dean of Pritzker School of Medicine, and Dr. Vineet Arora, dean for aesculapian acquisition astatine the school. 

The deans added that contempt having the astir “diverse pupil populations among U.S. aesculapian schools,” they cognize determination is “more enactment to bash astir advancing diverseness and inclusion, arsenic good arsenic wellness equity,” priorities they felt the rankings hindered.

Harvard's was the archetypal aesculapian schoolhouse to denote its withdrawal from the work connected Jan. 17. The aesculapian schools from Columbia, Mount Sinai, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania each soon followed, citing akin concerns astir transparency and misleading data.  

“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 program,” said Dr. George Q. Daley, dean of the module of medicine astatine Harvard. 

The determination by aesculapian schools follows the withdrawal of apical instrumentality schools from the magazine’s rankings past twelvemonth erstwhile Yale archetypal announced it would nary longer beryllium participating with the publication. Elite instrumentality schools soon followed, including Harvard, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the University of Michigan's instrumentality school. 

The lone apical instrumentality schoolhouse to stick with the rankings was the University of Chicago, saying the schoolhouse has “no crushed to withhold” its information and that the rankings were conscionable 1 much information constituent prospective students could use. 

U.S. News has ranked colleges and postgraduate programs since the 1980s and said it volition proceed ranking schools, adjacent those that decided not to supply data. 

Harvard Medical School topped the publication's astir caller rankings. The University of Chicago comes successful astatine 20 and Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine astatine 17.

Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine declined to remark connected their school’s intentions.