<p>Alexandre, the page to which I linked is actually from the Web Archive–the Chronicle of Higher Education took these pages down some time ago. I don’t think that LAC drop-down link works.</p>
<p>bumppppppppppppppp is this just unaccessible or are they hiding it?</p>
<p>Has anyone seen a list that covers historical USN&WR university rankings deeper into the list (at least all tier 1 and tier 2, not just top 50)?</p>
<p>Bumppppppppppppppppp</p>
<p>It seems that USC, UofPenn and WashStl have had some of better increases in rankings.</p>
<p>USC was all that football money</p>
<p>UofPenn was all the Private Equity/Inv. Banking money</p>
<p>what was WashStL?</p>
<p>^Emory was consistently in the 20s and is now in the Top 20. Rice used to be higher, I believe… around 13th or so and now fell a little. Berkeley and all the other publics used to be way higher. Penn went from 20s to like 4th now.</p>
<p>Penn’s been Top 7 for 15 years</p>
<p>But UMich took a pounding in '89 and it appears Caltech was the benefactor</p>
<p>^ Actually, Penn’s been top 7 for 13–not 15–straight years, but who’s counting? :)</p>
<p>And before that, it was in the teens (mostly low teens) for 10 straight years, with the single exception of one year (1990, released in 1989) at #20. But the 20s-straight-to-#4-overnight narrative makes for a more sensational story (not to imply that alam1 or JohnAdams12 presented it that way, but other CC posters occasionally do). :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Hi. If memory serves, some time in the late 80s or early-mid 90s, US News included statistics on something akin to “how much was spent per student” in the same table as other statistics such as SAT scores and annual tuition. As a graduate of GWU, I was surprised, but not too surprised that the amount spent per student was (again, if memory serves) LOWER than tuition. However, I was much more surprised when I went over the other schools and saw only one, CalTech, where amount spent was lower than amount received. </p>
<p>I was too young/uninformed to realize that the world of academia would probably scream “that makes GW a profit-making institution!” and did not send the information to my college paper nor pursue the matter further other than to grumble something like “typical GW”. </p>
<p>Over the years I’ve gained a lot more respect for my school and lost respect for US News, but this recent GW-US News debacle makes me fairly sure my school is the one that needs to clean house. Does anyone have old issues of US News’ rankings that contains those statistics? If my memory is wrong, fantastic, but if I’m right…I have to wonder what that says. </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>