From the Editorial Board: America's medical schools are running scared of independent rankings.
Students of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine at their Match Day event on the U. of C. campus in 2018.from the popular rankings published by U.S. News and World Report, the former newsweekly that has carved out a niche ranking individual programs and schools at colleges and universities, as well as entire institutions.
Got that? In essence, the University of Chicago, like its peers, is arguing that the rankings perpetuate elitism, which makes these elite institutions uncomfortable and, these elites say, encourages schools to enroll students with the highest grades and test scores, since that is what the rankings reward, at the expense of qualities like “creativity, passion, resilience, and empathy.”
There’s something else at play here. Whatever the issues of “inequity” , the universities also dislike the rankings because they cannot control them. They’re an external judgment. Academics always hate that. They prefer peer reviews and, trust us, that is not because peer reviews are more reliable when it comes to the objective application of metrics.
Peer under the hood here and you find a lot of desire for control and a resistance to market realities. Given free rein, the top medical schools will operate more and more like a cartel, moving as a block.Faculty and students at top medical schools are proud to work where they work, as well they should be. Whatever their administrators disavow in public, those rankings are not going away.
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