<p>I recently found a link to historical us news college rankings and, much to my surprise, found that UIUC had been ranked in the top 10 around 30 years ago o.0.... I was just wondering... what happened? Lol</p>
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<p>The only time that happened was 1983 when US News issued its first ranking of colleges. The method used for that one was simply a survey of college presidents asking them to list what they thought were the best national universities and separately the best LAS colleges. As a result, Illinois, Michigan and UC Berkeley made the top ten in national unviersities. Thereafter, in 1985, USNews started its modern ranking list that considered various factors like today to rank colleges. It devised those factors by assuming Harvard, Yale and Princeton were the best national universities and then chose to use factors in which those three universities scored the highest. (It is no accident those colleges are usually the top three.) A number of those factors, such as class sizes, high class rank of those admitted, high test scores, do not favor public universities because they have to act on the basis of trying to educate as many of their residents as they can. One factor US News specifically decided not to use was affordability/low tuition and the reason it did so was because HYP did not score well at the time on that factor. As a result no public university ever again reached the top ten.</p>
<p>Thanks drusba! That makes more sense.</p>
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