Beyond college rankings: a value-added approach to assessing two- and four-year schools
The choice of whether and where to attend college is among the most important investment decisions individuals and families make, yet people know little about how institutions of higher learning compare along important dimensions of quality. Moreover, popular rankings of college quality focus only on a small fraction of the nation's four-year colleges and tend to reward highly selective institutions over those that contribute the most to student success. Drawing on a variety of government and private data sources, this report presents a provisional analysis of college value-added with respect ... Show more
Authors: Rowell, Jonathan; Kulkarni, Siddharth
Published: Washington, District of Columbia, Brookings Institution, 2015
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 51 p.
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http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2015/04/29-beyond-college-rankings-rothwell-kulkarni
