Study: University rankings influence number and competitiveness of applicants
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 13:01
in Psychology & Sociology
How universities fare on reputational quality-of-life and academic rankings – such as those published by the Princeton Review or U.S. News & World Report – can have a measurable effect on the number of applications they – and their competitors – receive and on the academic competitiveness of the resulting freshman class, according to a new study.