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Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost C. Cybele Raver sent a second email to faculty, alumni and students at around 4:30 p.m. CDT today further denouncing the U.S. News Best National Colleges ranking methodology. The pair did not note what prompted this second email, and the university did not immediately respond to The Hustler’s request for...

Academy to welcome primary school students in 2024

UPDATED: This article was updated on Sept. 27, 2023, at 12 p.m. CDT to include comments from the university, students and faculty. Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost C. Cybele Raver sent a second email to faculty, alumni and students at around 4:30 p.m. CDT today further denouncing the U.S. News Best National Colleges ranking methodology. The...

On one fateful day, Vanderbilt’s world was flipped upside down when the U.S. News 2024 Best National College ranking was released. I woke up that morning to a mass outcry by students over Vanderbilt’s not-so-graceful exit out of top-15 status and pitiful entrance into the dreaded top-20. Fizz — an anonymous, campus-specific social media forum...

Event will bring high-profile guests to campus to discuss current state of free expression, civil discourse Vanderbilt will hold a series of high-profile events Oct. 10–17 in observance of the university’s first-ever campus-wide Free Speech Week, part of Chancellor Daniel Diermeier’s recently launched Dialogue Vanderbilt initiative. Programming highlights include well-known journalist, editor and columnist for […]

Shifts in methodology scrambled the usual hierarchy of U.S. News’s annual college rankings, prompting a fierce backlash from some higher ed leaders.  U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings of undergraduate institutions Monday, prompting a familiar flurry of bragging and bemoaning by college leaders. 

Vanderbilt, whose stated mission is to become a top-10 academic and research institution, dropped five spots to No. 18 on the 2024 U.S. News Best National Universities ranking released on Sept. 18. University leaders criticized the ranking’s methodology, claiming it does not paint a full or accurate picture of universities, and expressed concern for its...

The famed college rankings of U.S. News & World Report created some tumult this year after their methodology shifted, putting an emphasis on "social mobility."

The five-spot loss piques an institution long sensitive to national comparison

Vanderbilt, whose stated mission is to become a top-10 academic and research institution, dropped five spots to No. 18 on the 2024 U.S. News Best National Universities ranking released on Sept. 18. University leaders criticized the ranking’s methodology, claiming it does not paint a full or accurate picture of universities, and expressed concern for its...