Preview: Methodology Changes for 2014 Best Colleges Rankings
By Robert Morse
One of the methodology changes in the 2014 Best Colleges rankings is a reduction in the importance of high school class standing.
The 2014 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings will launch on usnews.com on Tuesday, Sept. 10. For these new rankings, we made significant changes to the methodology to reduce the weight of input factors that reflect a school's student body and increase the weight of output measures that signal how well a school educates its students.