Colleges have been living with rankings systems for years — while simultaneously complaining and boasting about how they are classified. Institutions are always striving to bolster their brands in pursuit of prestige.
 
 
 
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But how can any rankings system adequately evaluate institutions devoted to learning?

It's difficult to find another industry in which reputations are so fixed, so valuable, and based on so little hard evidence. The College Rankings Paradox collects The Chronicle’s best reads on the state of college rankings. Order this collection to explore the challenges and opportunities of higher ed’s hypercompetitive rankings landscape.