Improving a school's U.S. News and World Report ranking

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 259-263

  Tsakalis, Konstantinos S ^a   Palais, Joseph C ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

School rankings; School evaluation metrics; U.S. News and World Report

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COLLEGE BUILDINGS; DATA REDUCTION; RATING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

SCHOOL EVALUATION METRICS; SCHOOL RANKINGS; US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 3342944311     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2004.tb00813.x     Document Type: Review

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