Washington University will no longer participate in U.S. News & World Report’s annual best medical schools list.
Wash U joins Harvard, the University of Chicago, Stanford and other historically top-ranked schools that made similar announcements this year.
School officials say they’ll stop submitting data to the publication, which provides one of the nation’s most popular college rankings.
In a letter to Washington University School of Medicine students, faculty and staff earlier this year, Vice Chancellor David Perlmutter said that schools can manipulate data to change their rankings and that the ranking system does not reflect Wash U’s focus on community health and the social causes of medical problems.
“Our focus on the social determinants of health and the changing landscape of medical care in the U.S. prepares students to become the…
