This school admits fraud!Ranking from the second fell to 18 →

On the 12th local time, the "American News and World Report" magazine released the latest "2023 American University Ranking". Affected by the previous data fraud scandal, Columbia University's ranking fell from the second place last year to the eighteenth. It is reported that Brother University has issued a statement acknowledging that the ranking data is fraudulent.

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In a statement, Columbia University stated that the school submitted to the "American News and World Report" magazine for its reference in the 2021 university ranking. Correct statistical method ".

The statement mentioned the two data errors. One is the scale of the class. The data updated by the Big Big Big Big Big Big show that the ratio of less than 20 people is 57%, and the previously submitted 83%; the second is the proportion of full -time professors with doctoral degrees. After the update, the proportion of full -time professors with doctoral degrees is 95.3%, and the data that previously submitted the ranking of reference was 100%.

It is reported that since 1983, the "American News and World Report" magazine began to rank an annual ranking of American universities. So far, it has a history of nearly 40 years and has already become an important reference for the majority of students and parents.

In addition, according to the US "Fortune" magazine website, according to the data of Ga Da, the current study fee for undergraduate students is $ 65,000, plus the cost of board and lodging, each student spends about $ 86,000 each year (about RMB RMB (about RMB RMB (about RMB 600,000 yuan), it takes four years to calculate according to the undergraduate degree, and each undergraduate college student needs to spend about RMB 2.4 million. It is estimated that after eliminating inflation factors, the average tuition fees for private universities in the United States were over 30 years ago from 2020 to 2021.

Source: CCTV Finance

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