National Research Council's "Substantive' Errors in Grad Rankings

From http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/04/18/national_research_council_to_correct_ratings_of_doctoral_programs

WASHINGTON -- Doctoral departments that have finally figured out just what the National Research Council's controversial evaluation of their programs means, and how to read the numbers, will need to check the data again. On Thursday, the council is issuing revised rankings, based on four "substantive" errors in some of the categories used to evaluate programs.

The council issued a statement on Friday saying that overall rankings won't change significantly for most programs. But the rankings for some programs in some of the categories used for the overall rankings could see real shifts. And that's important because the NRC has said from the start that it is the data sets themselves -- not just the overall rankings -- that should be used to examine programs.

For more info on NRC's Philosophy rankings:
http://philosorapters.blogspot.com/2011/02/phd-ranking-national-research-council.html