  urlLink College Rankings. ERIC Digest. This ERIC Digest is by Tamara Holub. It reviews the issues around college ranking guides. From the ERIC Digest: The popularity of college ranking surveys published by U.S. News and World Report, Money magazine, Barron's, and many others is indisputable. However, the methodologies used in these reports to measure the quality of higher education institutions have come under fire by scholars and college officials. Also contentious is some college and university officials' practice of altering or manipulating institutional data in response to unfavorable portrayals of their schools in rankings publications. 
