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Rating the rankings

The U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities are largely arbitrary, according to a new mathematical analysis.

By Julie Rehmeyer

- More than 2 years ago

The single best school in the country is PennState. Then again, maybe it’s Princeton. Or perhaps Johns Hopkins, or Harvard, or Notre Dame …

The top three universities, as represented by plotting U.S. News & World Report statistics using high-dimensional mathematics.