U.S. News & World Report

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U.S.News & World Report
U.S.News & World Report Cover

U.S.News & World Report Cover
Executive Editor Brian Kelly[1]
Categories Newsmagazine
Frequency Weekly
Circulation 2,028,000 weekly[2]
Publisher Kerry F. Dyer
First issue 1933, 1948 (merger)
Company U.S.News & World Report, L.P.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Website usnews.com
ISSN 0041-5537

U.S. News & World Report is a weekly American newsmagazine. Originally United States News, it was renamed when it merged with World Report.

Contents

[edit] Overview

The editorial staff of U.S.News & World Report is based in Washington, D.C., but it is owned by U.S.News & World Report, L.P., which is based in the Daily News building in New York City. Founded in 1933 as United States News, it merged with World Report in 1948. The magazine's founder, David Lawrence (1888–1973), sold it to his employees. In 1984, it was purchased by Mortimer Zuckerman, who is also the owner of the New York Daily News.

Its two primary competitors are Time and Newsweek.

Officially, there is no space between the "U.S." and "News & World Report"; the publication's title, properly spaced, is "U.S.News & World Report". There is, however, a space in the short form "U.S. News".[3]

[edit] America's Best Colleges

Main article: College and university rankings

U.S. News America's Best Colleges have been compiled since 1983 by U.S.News & World Report [4]. These rankings are based upon data which U.S.News collects from each educational institution either from an annual survey sent to each school or from the school's website. They are also based upon opinion surveys of university faculty and administrators who do not belong to the school. [4] The college rankings were not published in 1984, but were published in all years since.

[edit] Criticism of college rankings

[edit] 1990s

Main article: Criticism of college and university rankings (North America)

During the 1990s, three educational institutions in the United States were involved in a movement to boycott the U.S.News & World Report college rankings survey. The first was Reed College which stopped submitting the survey in 1995. The survey was also criticized by Alma College, Stanford University, and St. John's College[5] during the late 1990s.

[edit] 2007

The building in Washington, D.C.
The building in Washington, D.C.
Main article: Criticism of college and university rankings (2007 United States)

On 19 June, 2007, during the annual meeting of the Annapolis Group, members discussed the letter to college presidents asking them not to participate in the "reputation survey" section of the U.S.News & World Report survey (this section comprises 25% of the ranking). As a result, "a majority of the approximately 80 presidents at the meeting said that they did not intend to participate in the U.S. News reputational rankings in the future." [6] The statement also said that its members "have agreed to participate in the development of an alternative common format that presents information about their colleges for students and their families to use in the college search process." [7] This database will be web based and developed in conjunction with higher education organizations including the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Council of Independent Colleges.

On 22 June 2007, U.S. News & World Report editor Robert Morse issued a response in which he argued, "in terms of the peer assessment survey, we at U.S. News firmly believe the survey has significant value because it allows us to measure the "intangibles" of a college that we can't measure through statistical data. Plus, the reputation of a school can help get that all-important first job and plays a key part in which grad school someone will be able to get into. The peer survey is by nature subjective, but the technique of asking industry leaders to rate their competitors is a commonly accepted practice. The results from the peer survey also can act to level the playing field between private and public colleges." [8]In reference to the alternative database discussed by the Annapolis Group, Morse also argued, "It's important to point out that the Annapolis Group's stated goal of presenting college data in a common format has been tried before [...] U.S.News has been supplying this exact college information for many years already. And it appears that NAICU will be doing it with significantly less comparability and functionality. U.S.News first collects all these data (using an agreed-upon set of definitions from the Common Data Set). Then we post the data on our website in easily accessible, comparable tables. In other words, the Annapolis Group and the others in the NAICU initiative actually are following the lead of U.S.News." [9]

[edit] America's Best Hospitals

For the past eighteen years, U.S.News has compiled a list of America's Best Hospitals [1] after evaluating thousands of hospitals across multiple medical specialties.[10] U.S.News & World Report evaluates hospitals, excluding military and veterans hospitals, based upon sixteen specialties. To be considered one of the top hospitals, medical centers must score at or near the top (at least two standard deviations above the mean) in a minimum of six specialties.

In the latest 2007 rankings, 5,462 medical centers were evaluated of which only 173 hospitals made it into the rankings, and finally eighteen ranked highly enough within at least six specialties to qualify them for the Honor Roll.[11]

[edit] Rankings

Rank Hospital Name Location Points in specialties
1 Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD 30 points in 15 specialties
2 Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN 29 points in 15 specialties
3 UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, CA 25 points in 15 specialties
4 Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH 25 points in 13 specialties
5 Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 23 points in 12 specialties
6 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell New York, NY 21 points in 11 specialties
7 Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 18 points in 10 specialties
7 University of California San Francisco Medical Center San Francisco, CA 18 points in 10 specialties
9 Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University St. Louis, MO 17 points in 11 specialties
10 Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA 16 points in 10 specialties
11 University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA 15 points in 9 specialties
12 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 11 points in 8 specialties
13 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA 10 points in 7 specialties
14 University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers Ann Arbor, MI 9 points in 7 specialties
15 Stanford Hospital and Clinics Stanford, CA 8 points in 6 specialties
15 Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT 8 points in 6 specialties
17 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA 7 points in 6 specialties
17 University of Chicago Hospitals Chicago, IL 7 points in 6 specialties

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ U.S.News & World Report Names Brian Kelly Editor
  2. ^ Average Circulation
  3. ^ About U.S. News
  4. ^ a b America's Best Colleges. U.S. News and World Report (2007).
  5. ^ Christopher B. Nelson, "Why you won't find St. John's College ranked in U.S.News & World Report", University Business: The Magazine for College and University Administrators.
  6. ^ Jaschik, Scott (20 June 2007). More Momentum Against ‘U.S.News’. Inside Higher Ed.
  7. ^ ANNAPOLIS GROUP STATEMENT ON RANKINGS AND RATINGS. Annapolis Group (19 June 2007).
  8. ^ Morse, Robert (22 June 2007). About the Annapolis Group's Statement. U.S. News and World Report.
  9. ^ Morse, Robert (22 June 2007). About the Annapolis Group's Statement. U.S.News & World Report.
  10. ^ Comarow, Avery (2007-07-15). What It Takes to Be the Best. U.S.News & World Report. Retrieved on 2007-07-15.
  11. ^ America's Best Hospitals 2007. U.S.News & World Report (2007-07-15). Retrieved on 2007-07-15.

[edit] External links

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