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More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools

Inside Higher Ed

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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Berg Appointed UC Davis School of Law Dean

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jessica Berg “The School of Law and overall university’s commitment to serving first-generation students, to social justice, and to academic and scholarly excellence all attracted me to this position,” she said. She was a visiting professor at Michigan State University Medical School.

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Here are the latest best graduate schools rankings

University Business

News & World Report on Tuesday released its annual list that has added a stronger focus on student outcomes in recent years. The list is designed to help students identify the best options in their course of study. Best law schools Stanford University and Yale University tied for No. News proclaimed.

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Adapting to criticism and college opt-outs, U.S. News teases its latest rankings

University Business

Following harsh criticism from the nation’s top medical schools and the Department of Education, U.S. News and World Report is set to release its law and medical school: research rankings next week with an updated methodology and a reliance on public information from schools that now refuse to participate.

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

University Business

Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. Coming into 2023, U.S. The new lens U.S.

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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

Inside Higher Ed

” The university plans to recruit Jewish faculty members to teach in the university’s law school, pharmacy school and new medical school, scheduled to open in 2024. ” While the majority of Belmont students are Christian, the number of non-Christian students has increased over the years.

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Colorado College to Drop Out of ‘U.S. News’ Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

This metric is also inconsistent with our belief that the educational experiences we provide transform our students regardless of these class rank and test scores, which is why we went test-optional in 2019. ” Law schools and medical schools, including many highly ranked institutions, have dropped out of U.S.