University of Michigan Medical School pulls out of U.S. News rankings

ANN ARBOR, MI – The University of Michigan Medical School will now not present knowledge to take part within the U.S. News & World Report rankings.

This is the second UM faculty within the final three months to withdraw from the annual rankings, because the UM Law School stopped taking part in November.

While not stating particular issues with the U.S. News rankings, UM Medical School officers mentioned they discovered the rating methodology doesn’t mirror the numerous priorities of medical faculties throughout the nation, Michigan Medicine spokeswoman Mary Masson mentioned.

“Most medical school deans will agree that what makes a great medical school are excellence in the education of physicians and in conducting meaningful research that advances health,” Masson mentioned in a press release. “But it is very difficult to come up with a single set of measures that reflect the variety of outcomes that different medical schools value.”

Students are usually not helped by a easy aggregated rating, as every pupil has completely different priorities, mentioned Marschall Runge, dean of the UM Medical School.

“Creating an overall ranking blurs each school’s individual attributes into a single score or rank that only reflects priorities set by (U.S. News) itself,” Runge mentioned in a press release.

UM’s Medical School ranked No. 17 nationally within the 2023 U.S. News medical faculty rankings. The methodology, discovered right here, scores on assessments by friends and regional administrators, pupil selectivity based mostly on MCAT scores, GPA and acceptance price, college assets and analysis exercise.

UM Medical School leaders, college and college students supplied enter that led to the choice to withdraw, officers mentioned. Runge and different medical faculty deans throughout the nation inspired U.S. News to vary its rating course of, Runge mentioned.

“We made multiple suggestions to USNWR leadership urging change in their methodologies,” he mentioned. “Ultimately, these discussions yielded only minor revisions to the methodology used to rank medical schools.”

UM Medical School directed potential college students to go to its web site for knowledge to help of their resolution making.

Michigan Medicine will nonetheless take part in different hospital or well being system rankings to supply useful data to sufferers and households, officers mentioned. UM Health, the medical division of Michigan Medicine, consists of 5 hospitals and handles greater than 2.3 million outpatient visits a 12 months.

When UM Law School pulled out of the rankings, Dean Mark West mentioned U.S. News rankings now not “serve the public interest,” and that the methodology is “opaque” and based mostly on subjective scores.

“The collected information might be interesting, but it is not based on a rigorous survey instrument, and even if it were, it should not guide decision making for prospective students (or anyone else),” West wrote in November.

“Nonetheless, law schools to a greater or lesser degree sometimes are forced to consider the effect of any changes in their programs on their rank. While Michigan has consistently resisted the pressure to take actions that are contrary to our mission, the demands of the U.S. News algorithm always lurk in the background.”

UM spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen mentioned no different adjustments are deliberate to tug UM faculties from the U.S. News rankings.

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