Colleg College Rankings: Past, Present, And Future

The opponents also point out that publishers are ranking schools depend on institutions' prestige but the schools’ education qualities which make unwell-known colleges hard to break in. Based on a graphic on The Washington Post, the majority universities' rankings only slightly floated from 2010 to 2015 (Anderson Lu). There is no doubt that reputation affects media’s opinions on schools, but, in fact, prestige is a part of strength; in another word, only if they have outstanding accomplishments, can they be well-known. Thus, reputation confirms and guarantees the universities’ quality of academic comparatively. Moreover, the quality of education cannot be improved in a short time; it needs to accumulate and develop through huge efforts and a long period. Therefore, most colleges maintain steady rankings in a certain time.
They provide useful information to guide students find good matches with colleges, help institutions recruit more students and assist companies to hire high-productive workers. Vedder believes that controversy is not a proven that college rankings are terrible but which suggests they need to be more “student-centered” (Karaim). While the ranking systems still have flaws and are not perfect, but publishers are improving them every year and are trying to offer specific details to benefit more. The outlook of college rankings can be expected; they will make a huge progress in the