A Numbers Game

The plummet of Columbia’s ranking raises questions of universities’ prestige

After exposing inaccurate reports from his own school, Columbia mathematics professor Michael Thaddeus ignited the fall of Columbia’s rankings in the annual US News and World Report. Earlier this month, Columbia’s ranking on the annual list fell from #2 to #18 after Thaddeus’ divulgement of  the university’s inaccurate reports of financial data, terminal degrees, graduation […]