…not softened—even when students confront the reality of political violence. The broader trend lines deepen the concern. In FIRE’s 2026 College Free Speech Rankings, 166 of the 257 institutions evaluated…
…spectrum driven by peer judgment, social-media backlash, and career concerns. External data confirms the pattern. In 2024, Harvard ranked 245th of 257 in FIRE’s Free Speech Rankings—its second straight year…
…with College Rankings] It is also sobering to note that American schools have historically dominated planetary rankings of universities, but this is becoming much less true. International rankings strongly emphasize…
…to the ACT or SAT? [RELATED: The Problem with College Rankings] As usual, the competitive market economy provides a solution: rankings of schools by quality. Led by U.S. News &…
…Follow the National Association of Scholars on X Image: Barnard College, New York City, by Billy Hathorn (via Wikimedia Commons). Barnard ranked last in FIRE’s 2026 College Free Speech Rankings….
…influential ranking, alongside the Quacquarelli Symonds and Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings. To wit, China has also launched its first intelligent universities initiative, where China’s top STEM institutions are…
…in that baseline. Back in 1990, ACE calculated the average tenure of a college president as 6.7 years. Another organization, the College and University Personnel Association, calculated the average in…
…they can add up to a sizable amount, so they should be included when you budget for college. 6. Cost of Campus Infrastructure and Rankings Schools with state-of-the-art campus facilities…
…how Mississippi’s K–12 struggles trail kids into college. Professors across the country have long been sounding the alarm that students are arriving to college woefully unprepared for the demands of…
The United States has long been the gold standard for higher education. Its colleges and universities top global rankings and draw students from every corner of the world. But the…
…declined in national rankings. As of 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked Sarah Lawrence at 108 out of 211 liberal arts colleges, significantly declining from its top 40 position…
…is crossposted here with permission. Like many readers of this site, I pay a lot of attention to stories about the latest outrages on our college campuses. All too often,…
…Best College rankings. If I were doing them today, I would try to include something like the FIRE rankings. Students benefit from attending schools where alternative viewpoints are not only…
…two decades ago when I began teaching at SLC. Many do not put much stake in college rankings—and for good reason—but there is no denying the college’s stature has diminished….
…presidents who excelled politically but graduated from obscure colleges—Lyndon B. Johnson from Southwest State Teachers College and Ronald Reagan from Eureka College. Joe Biden graduated from the University of Delaware…
…Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Free Speech Rankings. It warned about the lack of absolute free speech at Hillsdale College, a stellar example of academic rigor. Larry Arnn, the President…
…ahead of a black finalist. The diversity advisory committee eventually won out, and the search committee changed its rankings on the basis of race. After releasing the report, the university…
…has become a pathetic annual ritual for schools. These rankings have become a circus, and the results are not trustworthy. The data steps for generating these rankings are also a…
…rankings, which do not account for social class composition or sampling errors and do not consider whether score differences are meaningful, place the U.S. at 14th in reading and 25th…
Much has been made of recent decisions to re-require ACT or SAT scores in student applications to several elite Northeastern colleges. Start of a trend? Will more colleges now follow…
…Louisiana colleges have four-year graduation rates under 50 percent. At the top of the rankings, Centenary College (52%) and Loyola University (54%) make Tulane (77%) look like a magician. At…
…ranking that reflects my previous method of assessing institutional and cultural quality, program efficiency, and comparative depth. I leave the country and regional rankings the same, as well as the…
…won all—or nearly all—of them. As Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal so nicely put it, “College football has long been an irrational circus thanks to the mammoth television…
…is 242 out of 248 schools in the 2023 FIRE college free speech rankings. In April, Professor Kevin Wallsten pulled together this report for me on how NU compares to…
…Rankings.” Drawing on four extensive databases and responses from 55,000 students, this study seeks to describe college undergraduate students’ perceptions of the free-speech climate at numerous universities. It will not…
In July, five college presidents resigned in a week—one for each workday. Some ran small to mid-sized eastern colleges and universities: Seton Hall University, Thomas Jefferson University, and the Berklee…
…Report, dominate. The Understanding the True Cost of College Act, introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), “would require colleges to use uniform financial aid offer forms and develop standard definitions…
…of colleges and, if they pass a rigorous national exam, why not give them a college equivalence diploma (similar to the GED given to those who seek high-school-level diploma credentials)?…
…is life for every other working adult—it is about making trade-offs. For those who choose advanced learning instead of full-time employment upon college graduation, it is about understanding the eventual…
…will incentivize. Scholars have long complained that the dominant college rankings reward higher spending, and thus tend to spur a spending arms race among colleges seeking to climb up the…