<p>How likely is it for Boston College to move up in the us news ranking in the next couple of years? and if it does up, by how far? *i know its a weird question but im curious of your opinion</p>
<p>Those rankings are pretty pointless, so I wouldn't worry about it.</p>
<p>Rankings are so trivial these days.</p>
<p>I havent followed any kind of rankings (besides sports) but I do know they fluctuate greatly. USNEWS for example tweaks their formula every now and then. The single most important factor in this formula is a 'peer-rating', an educated opinion, opinions change. Endowment, part of the rank, fluctuates. </p>
<p>One prime example could be Penn, now 4 in the rankings, 11 a few years ago, 7 in recent years. </p>
<p>BTW, does anybody have a copy or want to post LAST years 1-50? or 1-40, just include BC. Im curious now.</p>
<p>A 3.5 rank spread for UPenn is not such a great fluctuation in my book.</p>
<p>I never said that penn had a 'great' fluctuatoin. I said that certian colleges fluctuate greatly, i could only think of penn at the moment. And 11 to 4 pretty big if you ask me, i mean, how much can change in a few years?</p>
<p>1 Harvard University (MA)
1 Princeton University (NJ)
3 Yale University (CT)
4 University of Pennsylvania
5 Duke University (NC)
5 Stanford University (CA)
7 California Institute of Technology
7 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
9 Columbia University (NY)
9 Dartmouth College (NH)
11 Washington University in St. Louis
12 Northwestern University (IL)
13 Cornell University (NY)
13 Johns Hopkins University (MD)
15 Brown University (RI)
15 University of Chicago
17 Rice University (TX)
18 University of Notre Dame (IN)
18 Vanderbilt University (TN)
20 Emory University (GA)
20 University of California Berkeley*
22 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
23 Georgetown University (DC)
23 University of Virginia*
25 Univ. of California Los Angeles*
25 University of Michigan Ann Arbor*
27 Tufts University (MA)
27 U. of North Carolina Chapel Hill*
27 Wake Forest University (NC)
30 Univ. of Southern California
31 College of William and Mary (VA)*
32 Lehigh University (PA)
32 Univ. of California San Diego*
34 Brandeis University (MA)
34 University of Rochester (NY)
34 Univ. of Wisconsin Madison*
37 Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
37 Georgia Institute of Technology*
37 New York University
40 Boston College</p>