Does Anyone have previous years U.S News rankings?

I copied this from another thread:

2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1995 1993
Harvard 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Wash U 3 2 3 4 3 4 3 5 4 5 5
Hopkins 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Duke 6 4 5 3 5 6 4 3 5 6 6
U Penn 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 7 6 7 7
UCSF 5 6 6 7 7 6 7 4 6 4 4
U Mich 9 7 8 9 12 10 9 9 9 11
Columbia 10 8 7 6 5 8 7 8 8 8 8
Stanford 8 8 11 9 10 10 9 10 10 9 9
U Wash 7 10 10 11 9 9 13 13 11 9 9
Yale 11 10 9 8 7 5 4 6 3 3 3
Cornell 14 12 11 11 14 13 9 12 12 17
Baylor 13 13 13 11 12 15 13 15 15 15
UCLA 11 14 13 14 10 10 12 11 13 12
U Pitt 16 15 17 20 19 24 19 17 17 18
Vanderbilt 1715 16 16 16 16 15 14 14 14
UCSD 14 17 20 24 23 22 19 20 18 13
UTSW 17 17 17 17 19 19 17 21 20
Emory 20 19 20 22 19 19 21 19 24
Northwestern 20 20 22 20 22 21 25
UNC 23 20 22 24 23 22
Mayo 23 22 15 15 15 14 24 24 22
U Chicago 19 22 19 17 18 18 18 16 16 16
Case 20 24 22 17 17 16 15 18 19 19
U Alabama 23 25 28 27 26 24 25
UVa 26 25 27 28 30 28
U Wisc 26 25 31 30 31 32
MSSM 32 28 22 23 23 27
Iowa 28 28 30 29 32 30
NYU 32 30 26 24 27 24 21 23 22 20
U Colorado 30 31 31 33 33 33
U Rochester 30 32 28 31 28 30
USC 32 32 36 43 40 36
Dartmouth 35 34 34 34 36 41
OHSU 35 34 35 35 39 36
U Minn 38 34 36 35 33 36
Yeshiva/Einstein 38 37 31 32 28 28 24 22 21
OSU 37 38 44 40 40 39
Indiana 45 39 47 43 40 41
Tufts 43 40 43 37 36 41
U Florida 46 40 44 40 44 45
Wake 41 40 39 43 50 45
Boston U 28 43 39 37 33 33
Brown 40 43 39 40 44
Georgetown 46 43 43 44 39
U Cinn 41 43 44 48 40 45
U Maryland 43 43 39 43 44 48
Utah xx 48 38 39 36 33
UCD 46 49
Jefferson xx 50 48 50 48
MCW xx 50 50 50
U Miami xx 50 49 48 50
UCI 46 53
U Mass 50 53 48 48 44 41
UT-Houston xx 53
StonyBrook xx 56
Tulane xx 56
UMDNJ xx RWJ 56
U Conn xx 59
VCU/MCV xx 60

Looks like BU made quite a big jump. Any particular reason?

bump!

Tonic1025 said:

Looks like BU made quite a big jump. Any particular reason?

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Don't know for sure... but I think they received a huge grant from the federal government. A big part of the rankings comes from research money, so that's why they jumped up so much. I think this goes to show you how stupid these rankings can be.

silas2642 said:

Don't know for sure... but I think they received a huge grant from the federal government. A big part of the rankings comes from research money, so that's why they jumped up so much. I think this goes to show you how stupid these rankings can be.

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I agree. These rankings mean little when it comes to quality of education. Unfortunately/fortunately depending on where you go, it is somewhat important though. The formula for rankings are: Peer assessment score, assessment by residency directors, avg undergrad gpa, avg mcat score, avg acceptance rate, NIH research grants, and faculty to student ratio. Thing is, schools can play with these numbers to some extent to boost their ranking. GPA doesn't mean squat coming from all sorts of schools/majors/regions. MCAT scores, this is aguable, and I won't get into it. Avg acceptance rate, now I don't even know if they use the number of 2ndary apps to acceptances, but if they do, then of course they could easily play with this number to their advantage. NIH research grants has had absolutely no impact on my education, personally. Faculty to student ratio, I thought this was important, until I found out that my institution counts everyone from every department as faculty. If they give us one lecture in 4 years, they are counted as faculty, same thing if they happen to be the attending for a day on a service with med students. This doesn't mean jack in my book. However, I will ride my institution's reputation with the residency directors.

sscooterguy

Speaking of free falling, how bout Yale?

Yale has a fairly non-traditional educational system. I think the peer / residency director assessments might look down on it a little (compared to, say, the "top 5" schools). But, IMO it's one of the best.

dante201 said:

Yale has a fairly non-traditional educational system. I think the peer / residency director assessments might look down on it a little (compared to, say, the "top 5" schools). But, IMO it's one of the best.

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strange they are ranked worse now than in the early 90s, since that is about the same time they started adding all those new research buildings to the med campus. Someone's son from the rankings staff at USNEWS must have been rejected from there.