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Lord of the Rankings

2021/7/1
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The episode explores the origins of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, created by Peter Bernstein and his colleagues in the 1980s to distinguish the magazine from its competitors.

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For 30 years, US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best colleges and universities in the United States. As a public service to our listeners, we hack the algorithm and discover the dirty little secret of the rankings game.

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