Babson Beats Harvard in Better College Rating System

In The New York Times, Kevin Carey discusses the merits of Money magazine’s college ranking system, which includes an increasingly important factor – affordability. When affordability and student outcomes are taken into account along with traditional measures of college quality, the familiar US News & World Report’s list looks far different. Kevin argues that despite being well poised and having access to vast stores of data, the federal government will continue to grapple with the fairness of these controversial metrics.