Web-based exercise. Each year, U.S. News & World Report ranks the nation’s colleges and universities. You can find the current rankings on the magazine’s Web site, www.usnews

.com. Colleges often dispute the validity of the rankings, and some even say that U.S. News changes its measurement process a bit each year to produce different “winners” and thus generate news. The magazine describes its methods on the Web site. Give three variables that you would use as indicators of a college’s “academic excellence.” You may or may not decide to use some of U.S. News’s variables.

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