哥大承认递交US News 的数据有错

原标题 Columbia Acknowledges Reporting Incorrect Figures in Past U.S. News Ranking

原刊于 Wall Street Journal ｜By Melissa Korn ｜Sept. 9, 2022 7:21 pm ET

数据为关于本科排名的部分 Columbia University incorrectly reported figures in two categories to the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, the school said Friday, confirming some allegations lodged by a math professor at the school earlier this year. In response to the concerns raised by Professor Michael Thaddeus on his faculty website, the school said in June that it would review past years’ data submissions and wouldn’t participate in this year’s U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation’s best colleges.

有问题的数据包括1. 小班数量 2. 教师最高学历 Columbia said on Friday that it had overstated how many small classes it has, as well as what share of faculty hold terminal degrees, both elements the rankings consider. Columbia tied with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year as the No. 2 Best National University, but was later moved to “unranked” after U.S. News & World Report said the school “has been unable to provide satisfactory responses” to its inquiries.

可以看到US News 的美国本土综合性大学排名上，Columbia 确实不见了，其他学校的名次保持不变，包括Yale 依然是第五

  下面是具体哥大校方道歉内容 “Anything less than complete accuracy in the data that we report—regardless of the size or the reason—is inconsistent with the standards of excellence to which Columbia holds itself,” Provost Mary C. Boyce said in a statement. “We deeply regret the deficiencies in our prior reporting and are committed to doing better.” She said Columbia had relied on “outdated and/or incorrect methodologies” to calculate class sizes and faculty degree figures, and that it has changed those methodologies for current and future data submissions.

同时周五，哥大自行公布了一系列数据 Also Friday, the school released two sets of numbers for what is known as the Common Data Set, a standardized set of figures that schools can voluntarily publish detailing information about student enrollment, graduation rates, financial aid and faculty, among other subjects. The sets break out figures like admission rates and scholarship amounts for the main and highly selective undergraduate programs—Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science—and for the School of General Studies, which primarily enrolls nontraditional students and has a larger share of part-time attendees.

可以在下面这个网站看到 https://opir.columbia.edu/understanding-columbias-common-data-set

Columbia’s provost said the school will continue to release Common Data Set figures going forward, but that the value of its educational offerings “cannot be measured by common denominator-style metrics.”

目前还不确定什么时候会回到US News 榜单

A school spokesman declined to comment on whether the school will submit data for future U.S. News & World Report rankings.