U.S. News & World Report is going list crazy.
The magazine’s editor, Brian Kelly, told The Numbers Guy, a blog sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, that U.S. News plans to start two new rankings of colleges: one of historically black colleges and universities, and the other of highly ranked colleges that are still relatively easy to get into.
Those lists will follow the magazine’s controversial annual rankings of undergraduate programs, and less contentious rankings of graduate schools.
The No. 3 news magazine is becoming increasingly dependent on such lists. Mr. Kelly says that if it made sense to publish 16 rankings a year, “we’d do 16 … It’s a question of getting good data that’s useful for consumers.” —Martin Van Der Werf
