UW School of Medicine joins national revolt against ranking system - Axios

The University of Washington School of Medicine and the UW School of Law volition nary longer enactment successful U.S. News & World Report's erstwhile prestigious assemblage rankings.

Why it matters: With the pullout of some its aesculapian schoolhouse — announced last week — and instrumentality schoolhouse announced late past year, UW joins a widening revolt against the U.S. News & World Report rankings.

• The rebellion was spurred successful November erstwhile the dean of Yale Law School, Heather K. Gerken, announced the extremity of her school's information successful the “profoundly flawed” system. Gerken said the rankings disincentivized programs supporting public-interest careers and need-based fiscal aid, among different things.
• Since then, galore of the nation's astir prestigious instrumentality and aesculapian schools, including those of Stanford, Harvard and Columbia, person announced their volition not to taxable information for information successful the yearly ranking.
• Last week, the instrumentality schools astatine Gonzaga University successful Spokane and Seattle University besides announced they're pulling out, ensuring that nary of Washington's instrumentality schools volition beryllium portion of the ratings.

What they're saying: "The U.S. News ranking process does not align with our goals of creating an inclusive learning situation and processing a divers and culturally humble workforce," Timothy H. Dellit, interim CEO of UW Medicine said successful an online statement.

What we're watching: In effect to the backlash, U.S. News scrambled to revamp its criteria, saying it would springiness much recognition to schools whose graduates spell connected to prosecute precocious degrees oregon lower-waged public-service jobs and would nary longer see indicators of pupil indebtedness successful its rankings.

• But those measures person not, truthful far, lured schools backmost and immoderate observers accidental the relevance of specified lists may beryllium dimming.

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