Clarke, Marguerite. "Quantifying Quality: What can the U.S. News and World Report rankings tell us about the quality of higher education?" Education Policy Analysis Archives 10.16 (March 20, 2002).

Gator, Denise S. "A Review of Measures Used in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges." TheCenter, An Occasional Paper from The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance, University of Florida, Summer 2002.

Glass, Stephen.  "The College Rankings Scam."  Rolling Stone (Oct 16 1997): 93-97. (Get the article at the University of Florida Music Library, call number: 780.5 R754. )

Graham, Amy and Thompson, Nicholas. "Broken Ranks: U.S. News' college rankings measure everything but what matters. And most universities do not seem to mind." Washington Monthly. (2001 September).

Lemann, Nicholas. "Universities use rankings, too; colleges may not like being ranked, but they've long ranked students."  U.S. News & World Report (August 31 1998) : 81. 

Machung, Anne.  "Playing the rankings game. (magazine rankings of colleges and universities)." Change 30 (July-August 1998):12-17.  

"Magazine's methods for ranking graduate schools are arbitrary and unscientific say psychology departments."  APA Monitor  29 (April 1998). 

National Opinion Research Center. "A Review of the Methodology for the U.S. News & World Report's Rankings of Undergraduate Colleges and Universities." The Washington Monthly Online. 2000.

Sanoff, Alvin P.  "Rankings are here to stay; colleges can improve them.  The Chronicle of Higher Education  (September 4 1998): A96.
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Sharp, William.  "Building reputations: How the game is played."  21stC Issue 1.1 (Spring 1995)  

Other Sites to Consult

Caution & Controversy: Bibliography (University of Illinois, College and University Rankings.)

Colleges & Universities: Rankings