Academy Rankings Tell You a Lot, But Not Who's No. 1 in Any Field

摘要

Perhaps it should be called the Mr. Potato Head of graduate school rankings.rnRemember how easy it was to alter the appearance of that toy's bland, tubular face by sticking an ear or an eye in an unexpected place? Well, the latest analysis of the quality of U.S. research doctoral programs by the National Academies' National Research Council (NRC) can be manipulated in much the same way. But the exercise is hardly child's play.