Or whenever they release in the next few days. US News obfuscates their formula and at the undergraduate level it’s far more complicated with their predictive metrics.
That said my firm does this for a living and my data team in really good at it. I think they have reverse engineered the undergraduate ranking at 99% overlap. I got curious and had then run some models, in fact a lot of models. We come out between 17-19 almost every time.
1 year changes are all but meaningless and rankings are just stupidly fascinating, but I figured I’d share since I was curious enough to have them do the modeling.
That said my firm does this for a living and my data team in really good at it. I think they have reverse engineered the undergraduate ranking at 99% overlap. I got curious and had then run some models, in fact a lot of models. We come out between 17-19 almost every time.
1 year changes are all but meaningless and rankings are just stupidly fascinating, but I figured I’d share since I was curious enough to have them do the modeling.