<p>Why do U.S. News rankings in the sciences not have detailed statistics that those in other fields (business, law etc.) do?</p>
<p>My understanding is that because admissions decisions of those programs in the sciences depend more on research aspects, numerical information would not be very useful and they do not have it.</p>
<p>But I am not really sure and I am curious.</p>
<p>There is actually a new ranking of PhD programs based on a "faculty scholarly productivity" (FSP) index that basically takes into account number of publications, citations , and research grants per faculty. You can find more details in this article from the "Chronicle of Higher Education". There is also a [thread=287132] thread [/thread] on this topic in the "College Search and Selection" forum.</p>
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My understanding is that because admissions decisions of those programs in the sciences depend more on research aspects, numerical information would not be very useful and they do not have it.
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The individual programs almost certainly do track this information, but I suspect you're correct that they don't release it because it's not as helpful for applicants as applicants tend to think it would be.</p>
<p>great stats. I shall send it to my DD1, so she can scratch Juilliard and Northwestern off her list of top schools for the MA in Music and go on over to higher rated Harvard. (waaaa?)</p>
<p>bruno123:
Those rankings are interesting. I think what is good about them is that both relatively small and large schools can be evaluated fairly.</p>
<p>molliebatmit:
So, is it likely that U.S. News does not have that information while the schools do track it? Or, U.S. News just chose not to put it in their rankings in the sciences?</p>
<p>I imagine the rankings based on deans' evaluation tend to reflect research aspects strongly.</p>
<p>I'm not sure. I would imagine that US News would publish the information if they had it, so I guess I'd assume they were not given the information.</p>