Postscript on College Rankings Revisited: Description of methods

By Phil Hill. There has been a lot of interest in Tuesday's guest post by Steve Lattanzio from MetaMetrics on an alternate approach to college rankings that relies on algorithmic analysis of thousands of variables from the College Scorecard instead of typical cherry-picking of variables and subjective analysis. There have been some good questions posted on social media and blog comments asking for more information on the algorithms or assumptions behind the algorithms. More...