article thumbnail

Harvard Medical School rejects U.S. News rankings

Higher Ed Dive

1 medical school for research says rankings “create perverse incentives” for institutions to submit false or misleading data. The dean of the No.

article thumbnail

Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Mount Sinai medical schools withdraw from U.S. News rankings

Higher Ed Dive

The exodus follows Harvard medical school and a contingent of law schools rejecting the listings.

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Bloomberg Philanthropies donates $600M to 4 historically Black medical schools

Higher Ed Dive

The charitable group is also giving $5 million to the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, which is slated to open in New Orleans.

article thumbnail

New medical schools: the story so far

HEPI

In 2016, the then Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, promised that medical schools in England would be allowed to offer up to 1,500 extra training places a year with a view to making the NHS self-sufficient in doctors by 2025. Yet strict caps remain on the number of medical students that can be recruited. Number caps.

article thumbnail

U.S. News scales back reputation, selectivity metrics in law, medical school rankings

Higher Ed Dive

The methodology changes follow an exodus of institutions from those rankings that began last year.

article thumbnail

Will Free Medical School Diversify the Physician Workforce?

Inside Higher Ed

Will Free Medical School Diversify the Physician Workforce? kathryn.palmer… Tue, 04/23/2024 - 03:00 AM A slew of medical colleges have gone tuition-free in recent years. But experts say it’s not enough to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the medical field. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

article thumbnail

Roughly a third of medical schools have DEI incentives for employees, report finds

Higher Ed Dive

Two-thirds of surveyed schools have a plan to diversify faculty recruitment, but less than half of promotion and tenure policies reward faculty DEI work.