The Toronto Star brings word that 11 Universities, including Toronto, Ottawa, UBC, McMaster, and Simon Frasier, opted out of cooperating with this year’s annual Maclean’s university rankings.
The rankings have always been a a source of controversy. And with U of T complaining from the top of the heap, it’s not just the losers crying foul. Are unified rankings even useful in today’s University marketplace, where hyper-specialization is becoming the norm?
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Carleton has opted out of the ranknigs as well.
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