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U.S.News & World Report

U.S.News & World Address Cover
Categories Newsmagazine
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 1,269,260 1
Publisher Kerry F. Dyer
First issue 1933 (United States News)
1946 (World Report)
1948 (merger)
Company U.S. Account & World Report, L.P.
Country New York City  United States
Language English
Website usnews.com
ISSN 0041-5537

U.S. Account & World Report is an American news magazine appear account in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for abounding years a arch account weekly, although it focused added than its counterparts on political, economic, bloom and apprenticeship stories. It is decidedly able-bodied accustomed for its baronial arrangement and anniversary letters on American colleges, alum schools and hospitals.

In June 2008, the anniversary switched its advertisement abundance from account to biweekly.2 In November 2008, it was appear that the anniversary would become a account magazine, while a lot of of its focus as a account aperture would be concentrated on its website.3

Contents

Publication history

United States News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973), who aswell started World Report in 1946. The two magazines initially covered civic and all-embracing account separately, but Lawrence alloyed them into U.S.News & World Report in 1948 and afterwards awash the anniversary to his employees. In 1984, it was purchased by Mortimer Zuckerman, who is aswell the buyer of the New York Circadian News.

The beat agents of U.S.News & World Report is based in Washington, D.C., but the anniversary is endemic by U.S.News & World Report, L.P., a abreast captivated aggregation based in the Circadian Account architecture in New York City.

It conforms to the owner's political point of view, and tends to be added conservative than its two primary competitors, Time and Newsweek. It aswell eschews sports, ball and celebrity news.4

In 1995, its web site, 'usnews.com' was launched accouterment admission to all online writing from the book edition.

In 2007, U.S. Account appear its account of the nation's best top schools for the aboriginal time. Its baronial alignment includes accompaniment analysis array and the success of poor and boyhood acceptance on these exams, and schools' achievement in Advanced Placement tests.

In June 2008, citation the abatement in all-embracing anniversary apportionment and advertising, "U.S.News & World Report" appear that it will become a biweekly publication, starting January 2009.5 It hoped advertisers would be admiring to the schedule, which accustomed ads to break on newsstands a anniversary longer. However, 5 months afterwards the anniversary afflicted its abundance again, acceptable monthly.6

In August 2008, U.S. Account broadcast and revamped its online appraisal section. The new adaptation of the appraisal page included circadian new op-ed agreeable as able-bodied as the new Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

America's Best Colleges

Main article: College and university rankings

In 1983, the anniversary appear its aboriginal America's Best Colleges report. They accept been aggregate and appear annually back 1985 and are the a lot of broadly quoted of their affectionate in the U.S.[2]

These rankings are based aloft abstracts which U.S.News collects from anniversary educational institution, either from an anniversary analysis beatific to anniversary school, or from the school's website. They are aswell based aloft appraisal surveys of university commonsense and administrators who do not accord to the schools.

The acceptance of U.S. Account academy rankings is reflected in its 2007 release7

U.S. Account aswell broadcast absolute academy guides in book form.8

Criticism of academy rankings

1990s

Main article: Criticism of academy and university rankings (North America)

During the 1990s, three educational institutions in the United States were complex in a movement to avoid the U.S.News & World Report academy rankings survey. The aboriginal was Reed College which chock-full appointment the analysis in 1995. The analysis was aswell criticized by Alma College, Stanford University, and St. John's College9 during the backward 1990s.

2000s

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Main article: Criticism of academy and university rankings (2007 United States)

On 19 June 2007, during the anniversary affair of the Annapolis Group, associates discussed the letter to academy presidents allurement them not to participate in the "reputation survey" area of the U.S.News & World Report analysis (this area comprises 25% of the ranking).

As a result, "a majority of the about 80 presidents at the affair said that they did not intend to participate in the U.S. Account reputational rankings in the future." 10 The account aswell said that its associates "have agreed to participate in the development of an another accustomed architecture that presents advice about their colleges for acceptance and their families to use in the academy seek process." 11 This database will be web based and developed in affiliation with academy apprenticeship organizations including the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Council of Independent Colleges.

On 22 June 2007, U.S.News & World Report editor Robert Morse issued a acknowledgment in which he argued, "in agreement of the associate appraisal survey, we at U.S. News durably accept the analysis has cogent amount because it allows us to admeasurement the 'intangibles' of a academy that we can't admeasurement through statistical data. Plus, the acceptability of a academy can advice get that all-important aboriginal job and plays a key allotment in which alum academy anyone will be able to get into. The associate analysis is by attributes subjective, but the address of allurement industry leaders to amount their competitors is a frequently accustomed practice. The after-effects from the associate analysis aswell can act to akin the arena acreage amid clandestine and attainable colleges."12 In advertence to the another database discussed by the Annapolis Group, Morse aswell argued, "It's important to point out that the Annapolis Group's declared ambition of presenting academy abstracts in a accustomed architecture has been approved afore [...] U.S.News has been bartering this exact academy advice for abounding years already. And it appears that NAICU will be accomplishing it with decidedly beneath allegory and functionality. U.S.News aboriginal collects all these abstracts (using an agreed-upon set of definitions from the Accustomed Abstracts Set). Then we column the abstracts on our website in calmly accessible, commensurable tables. In added words, the Annapolis Group and the others in the NAICU action in fact are afterward the advance of U.S. News." 13

Some academy apprenticeship experts, like Kevin Carey of Apprenticeship Sector, accept argued that U.S. Account and World Report's academy rankings arrangement is alone a account of belief that mirrors the apparent characteristics of aristocratic colleges and universities. According to Carey, "[The] U.S. Account baronial arrangement is acutely flawed. Instead of absorption on the axiological issues of how able-bodied colleges and universities brainwash their acceptance and how able-bodied they adapt them to be acknowledged afterwards college, the magazine's rankings are about absolutely a action of three factors: fame, wealth, and exclusivity." He suggests that there are added important characteristics parents and acceptance should analysis to baddest colleges, such as how able-bodied acceptance are acquirements and how acceptable acceptance are to acquire a degree.14

America's Best Hospitals report

For the accomplished 20 years, U.S. News has aggregate a account of America's Best Hospitals15 afterwards evaluating bags of hospitals beyond assorted medical specialties.16 U.S.News & World Report evaluates hospitals, excluding aggressive and veterans hospitals, based aloft sixteen specialties. To be advised one of the top hospitals, medical centers have to account at or abreast the top (at atomic 2 standard deviations aloft the mean) in a minimum of 6 specialties.

In the latest 2010-2011 rankings, 4,852 hospitals were advised of which alone 152 were ranked in any one of 16 specialities. Fourteen hospitals ranked awful abundant aural at atomic 6 specialties to authorize them for the Honor Roll.17 Johns Hopkins Hospital has been ranked #1 for 20 after years. 18

Rankings

Rank Hospital Name Location Points in specialties
1 Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD 30 credibility in 15 specialties
2 Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN 28 credibility in 15 specialties
3 Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 27 credibility in 15 specialties
4 Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH 26 credibility in 13 specialties
5 Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, CA 24 credibility in 14 specialties
6 New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell New York, NY 21 credibility in 11 specialties
7 University of California San Francisco Medical Center San Francisco, CA 20 credibility in 11 specialties
8 Barnes-Jewish Hospital / Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO 17 credibility in 10 specialties
9 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 16 credibility in 12 specialties
10 Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 16 credibility in 10 specialties
11 Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA 14 credibility in 10 specialties
12 University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA 14 credibility in 8 specialties
13 UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) Pittsburgh, PA 13 credibility in 8 specialties
14 University of Michigan Hospitals and Bloom Centers Ann Arbor, MI 12 credibility in 8 specialties

Notes

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  2. ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard. "U.S. Account Plans to Broadcast Anniversary and Expand Consumer Focus". The New York Times. June 11, 2008.
  3. ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard. "U.S. Account Will Become a Account Magazine". The New York Times. November 4, 2008.
  4. ^ "U.S. Account & World Report". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/620229/US-News-World-Report. Retrieved 2008-06-24. 
  5. ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (2008-06-11). "U.S. Account Plans to Broadcast Anniversary and Expand Consumer Focus". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/business/media/11mag.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24. 
  6. ^ "Red Ink: 'U.S. News' Goes Monthly, Hearst and Rodale Cut Staff". MediaPost. 2008-11-06. http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.san&s=94198&Nid=49092&p=966247. Retrieved 2008-11-06. 
  7. ^ Putting a Curious Eye on a Top Academy Baronial System" The New York Times (December 5, 2007)
  8. ^ Amazon's listings of U.S. Account "College Guides"
  9. ^ Christopher B. Nelson, "Why you will not acquisition St. John's Academy ranked in U.S.News & World Report", University Business: The Anniversary for Academy and University Administrators.
  10. ^ Jaschik, Scott (20 June 2007). "More Momentum Against ‘U.S.News’". Inside Academy Ed. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/20/usnews. 
  11. ^ "ANNAPOLIS GROUP STATEMENT ON RANKINGS AND RATINGS". Annapolis Group. 19 June 2007. http://www.collegenews.org/x7131.xml. 
  12. ^ Morse, Robert (22 June 2007). "About the Annapolis Group's Statement". U.S. Account and World Report. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2007/6/22/about-the-annapolis-groups-statement.html#read_more. 
  13. ^ Morse, Robert (22 June 2007). "About the Annapolis Group's Statement". U.S.News & World Report. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2007/6/22/about-the-annapolis-groups-statement.html#read_more. 
  14. ^ Carey, Kevin. "College Rankings Reformed". http://www.educationsector.org/usr_doc/CollegeRankingsReformed.pdf. Retrieved July 28, 2009
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  16. ^ Comarow, Avery (2008-07-10). "A Look Inside the Hospital Rankings". U.S.News & World Report. http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/best-hospitals/2008/07/10/a-look-inside-the-hospital-rankings.html. Retrieved 2008-09-15. 
  17. ^ "Best Hospitals 2010-11: The Honor Roll". U.S.News & World Report. 2009-07-15. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-hospitals/articles/2010/07/14/best-hospitals-2010-11-the-honor-roll.html. Retrieved 2010-07-15. 
  18. ^ "20 Years in a Row: The Johns Hopkins Hospital Afresh Tops U.S. Account & World Address "Honor Roll"". Johns Hopkins Medicine. 2010-07-15. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/20_years_in_a_row_the_johns_hopkins_hospital_again_tops_us_news__world_report_honor_roll. Retrieved 2010-07-15. 

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