Electronic AIR Volume 26, Number 47 (9/7/2006)

E-AIR SPECIAL BULLETIN: Obtaining Published Ranking Table Data From
   U.S. News
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TITLE: Obtaining Published Ranking Table Data From U.S. News
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U.S. News will again provide, free of charge to any institutional
researcher, a series of Excel spreadsheets with the data that appeared
in the America's Best Colleges 2007 Edition guidebook ranking tables
published on the U.S. News web site on August 18, 2006. The
spreadsheets will not be posted on a web site; they will be emailed
directly to each individual. These spreadsheets will only contain the
data that appear in the published ranking tables, not all the data
used to compute the rankings.

This information is provided for the convenience of AIR members
by U.S. News to assist them in their analytical responsibilities. Data
is only available from the America's Best Colleges 2007 Edition guide
book ranking tables (those published in August 2006).

To request these tables, or if you have questions about this offer,
please send an e-mail to either rmorse@usnews.com or
sflanigan@usnews.com. The e-mail request should contain a one-or-two
sentence reason for the request to access the data for your school or
institution. Expect a turnaround time of up to 10 business days before
receiving the Excel files. Ranking tables that were published in
previous years will be available later.

This is NOT a permission to print or repost the ranking tables
publicly. The data can be used for internal research purposes only.


Robert J. Morse
Director of Data Research
U.S. News & World Report
1050 Thomas Jefferson St. NW
Washington, DC 20007

Phone: 202-955-2389
Fax: 202-955-2263
www.usnews.com

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Electronic AIR Volume 26, Number 47 (9/7/2006)
Editor: Meihua Zhai, University System of Georgia
(mailto:meihua.zhai@usg.edu)
Associate Editor: Marne Einarson, Cornell University
(mailto:mke3@cornell.edu)

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