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USNWR wrote: 9. What does Rank Not Published and Unranked mean?
Rank Not Published means that U.S. News did calculate a numerical ranking for that school/program, but decided for editorial reasons that since the school/program ranked below the U.S. News cutoff that U.S. News would not publish the ranking for that school/program.
U.S. News will supply schools/programs listed as Rank Not Published with their numerical rankings, if they submit a request following the procedures listed in the Information for School Officials.
Schools/programs marked as Rank Not Published are listed alphabetically. Rank Not Published is for the schools that are in the bottom 25 percent of the rankings in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine and schools/programs in peer assessment only rankings with scores of less than 2.0.
Unranked means that U.S. News did not calculate a numerical ranking for that school or program. The school or program did not supply U.S. News with enough key statistical data to be numerically ranked by U.S. News. Schools or programs marked as Unranked are listed alphabetically and are listed below those marked as Rank Not Published.
A school's numerical rank tells you how many schools garner a higher score on the U.S. News ranking model. Schools that have the same score are listed alphabetically.
For example, suppose that a single school scores higher than all others on the U.S. News ranking model. It then has Rank 1. Now suppose that three schools are tied with the second-highest score. Each of those three schools will have Rank 2. Then the next-highest-scoring school will have Rank 5.
The fifth-ranked school achieves a third-highest score, but because of the three-way tie among schools achieving the second-highest score, there are four schools that rank higher, so the third-highest-scoring school has Rank 5, not Rank 3. In this example, no school has a rank of 3 or 4.
If they are ABA approved it usually means they are TTT.ScottRiqui wrote:What's the story behind law schools that are ABA-accredited, but not given a ranking by USNWR? Are the schools withholding information that US News would need in order to rank them, or does US News just lump them all into 'unranked' out of a sense of mercy?
It's pointless to rank so many schools when there's little difference between them and rankings can shift so suddenly YOY. No reason to be mean like that. Then again, USNWR rankings are basically pointless anyway.ScottRiqui wrote:What's the story behind law schools that are ABA-accredited, but not given a ranking by USNWR? Are the schools withholding information that US News would need in order to rank them, or does US News just lump them all into 'unranked' out of a sense of mercy?
couldnt say it better myselfNova wrote:they all really suck, so no one cares
Should probably still be avoided until we have more info.Nooblarzlarz wrote:Only exception to what everyone is saying would be UC Irvine. It's currently unranked because it's not eligible to be ranked until 2015 (I think).
yea, TLS' resident expert, Dr. Dre, can speak to the TTT status of UC-Irvinephillywc wrote:Should probably still be avoided until we have more info.Nooblarzlarz wrote:Only exception to what everyone is saying would be UC Irvine. It's currently unranked because it's not eligible to be ranked until 2015 (I think).
Hah. I'm higher on UC Irvine than most. I think it ends up being a T30 school, if not right away than soon, and that it will at least for a few years, have job results that outpace its ranking.stillwater wrote:yea, TLS' resident expert, Dr. Dre, can speak to the TTT status of UC-Irvinephillywc wrote:Should probably still be avoided until we have more info.Nooblarzlarz wrote:Only exception to what everyone is saying would be UC Irvine. It's currently unranked because it's not eligible to be ranked until 2015 (I think).
Nova wrote:they all really suck, so no one cares
