UM Medical School pulls support of U.S. News rankings

` University of Michigan is joining several other top medical schools in the country by withdrawing participation in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking program. e university said in a statement that the methodology used by the publication isn’t useful for students or the university.

“ e fundamental problem is that an aggregated score, based on many di erent dimensions, cannot possibly help students or others evaluate institutions with respect to their individual priorities,” Marschall Runge, dean of UM Medical School, CEO of Michigan Medicine and executive vice president of medical a airs for UM, said in a press release. “Creating an overall ranking blurs each school’s individual attributes into a single score or rank that only re ects priorities set by (the publication) itself.”

As a result, the medical school will no longer submit data to the publication. e move follows competitors pulling out across the U.S., including Harvard University, Columbia University, Stanford University, e University of Pennsylvania and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.