Another Reason Rankings Don’t Serve The Purpose You May Think

Colleges can manipulate enrollment to report an illusion of post-graduate success and lower student loan debt. Rankings force behaviors to be adopted by colleges like equating “academic quality with institutional wealth and privilege”.
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