US News Ranking

US News Ranking November 15, 2012 GW will be unranked for the remainder of the year in the US News World Report college rankings. Ivy Coach salutes US News World Report for keeping them honest by removing George Washington Universitys #51 ranking among best national universities. George Washington, it was recently revealed, misreported class rank data to the magazine and thus their rank in the September issue was better than it should have been had the data reported been accurate. George Washington University is now unranked and will be unranked until the 2014 US News World Report Best Colleges edition. Said GW president Steven Knapp in a statement about the US News ranking, We were surprised by the decision of U.S. News to remove George Washingtons numerical ranking rather than to correct it in light of our disclosure. We regret the error and have put safeguards in place to prevent such errors from occurring in the future. We cant imagine why Mr. Knapp was surprised. The university misreported data that led to an inaccurate ranking. If students plagiarize a term paper, dont they suffer consequences? Your university tried to game the system whether knowingly or unknowingly and its only fair that they should be removed from the rankings as a result of this. The school ranked #52, after all, didnt misreport data (to our knowledge). US News World Report sent a great message to college admissions officers (and Deans of Admission in particular). Report accurate data. If you dont, your school will go unranked. The US News World Report rankings are hugely important for universities and thus its fitting that GW should be penalized this year. Theyll think twice next time they even consider misreporting data. And so will every other university across the United States.