columbia loses no. 2 spot

Does the world of university rankings have a word for "dissolved" or "defrocked"? Maybe the answer is "Unranked."

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After Columbia University was unable to verify data that supported its ranking, U.S. News & World Report quietly announced that it had "unranked" Columbia University from its No. 2 spot in the 2022 edition of Best Colleges.

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“To date, Colombia has been unable to provide a satisfactory response to the information requested by US News,” the post said.

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When the US News Post learned of the criticism in March, it reportedly asked Columbia to verify the data it had reported, including the number of full-time and part-time faculty involved in instruction, as well as the total number of faculty members.

Following claims from one of its own mathematics professors that the No. 2 ranking was based on incorrect and misleading data, the university announced it would not take part in the subsequent ranking and instead conduct its own investigation.