Comments
- The goal was to combine universities and LACs together, as well as to consider aspects of these schools that would be relevant to an undergraduate.
- The meta-ranking may reflect the limitations of its weakest source. Excellent schools may not be included, then, if they were improperly or poorly assessed by this weakest source. For example, colleges from which graduates seek rewarding professions rather than maximal financial outcomes may not fare well in at least one of the constituent rankings.
- Nonetheless, schools that performed well are likely to be highly academically distinguished.
- As with other ranking methodologies, even excellent or superior schools whose priorities, structures or philosophies do not align well with ranking models are unlikely to perform particularly well.
- The cut-offs, generally based on the range of the underlying sources, will produce arbitrary effects.