Yet another med school has decided not to cooperate with the US News and World Report rankings. From the Detroit News:
The University of Michigan Medical School will no longer participate in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of medical schools, joining other medical schools nationwide and making it the second major UM school to bow out of the popular rankings. UM leaders announced Monday the criteria used to rank medical schools by U.S. News and World Report has "long been a concern at the University of Michigan and many medical schools across the country," according to a press statement.
"The fundamental problem is that an aggregated score, based on many different dimensions, cannot possibly help students or others evaluate institutions with respect to their individual priorities," said Marschall S. Runge, dean of the UM Medical School, CEO of Michigan Medicine and executive vice president of medical affairs for the University of Michigan...
UM joins medical schools at the University of Chicago, Duke and Harvard universities that have announced they are pulling out of the annual rankings...
So far, no UC med schools have joined the non-cooperation movement which, as blog readers will know, started among law schools including at UC.
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