(06-19-2020 12:20 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Interesting that all of the AAC, MAC, and CUSA schools are ranked in USNWR.

And because others have commented on it: USNWR is easily the most important ranking system because it's the one the media focuses on. None of the others mean basically anything. A school president can see his school drop down in WSJ and Carnegie etc. and not get fired.

If you tumble in USNWR, you get fired.

There's some truth to that, but a president who sees his institution drop in Carnegie is going to have a lot of faculty pressure. I'm sure it occurs, but I'm actually not sure I could name a university that has dropped from Very High Research to High Research...I feel like that list has expanded with schools like UTEP and Southern Miss that used to be nowhere near the top classification.