<p>All who live and die for confirmation from rankings should know that Wharton and Harvard have been dropped from a major independent rating of B-school programs. Oh no! This MUST mean that Harvard and Wharton are slipping!</p>
<p>Read the full story here --- important lessons on how and why college rankings may not mean what you think they do:</p>
<p>Or they may mean EXACTLY what they do - precisely what is it that they are trying to cover up? ;) (Their objection seems a lot less principled than Reed's, and so why shouldn't they be "punished" for it?)</p>
<p>A few years ago both schools decided not to provide any rankings organizations with their data. But it's all online on their websites for you to read. I don't think this is a big deal at all.</p>
<p>any rankings organizations with their data. >></p>
<p>Well, that's not exactly true. Last time I looked they were both still happily sending their common data set to US News & World Reports, which will only include school information submitted to them using their standards. I guess what you meant to say is they are not providing SOME rankings organizations with their data. :)</p>
<p>And the main thrust of the article was discussing some of the downsides of Harvard and Wharton claiming they're making "all" data available on their websites we but still controlling what is included and how it is structured.
As a Wharton alum, you should know how easy it is for businesses to mislead with numbers. :)</p>
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lol. If US News would drop them... :D</p>
<p>The undergraduate data is provided by Penn. The graduate data for is controlled by each graduate school (at least it is at Penn), and the Wharton MBA program does not release information. The article mentions this, and if you google to find more information you will find other articles that indicate the same thing. What ranking organizations did in past years before dropping Wharton was to survey the students (and they got a huge response rate) and bypass the actual institution since Wharton wouldn't give them data.</p>