Medical Schools at Stanford and Columbia Pull Out of U.S. News Ranking

The medical schools at Stanford and Columbia universities, the University of Pennsylvania and Mount Sinai are withdrawing their cooperation from U.S. News & World Report rankings, pulling out less than a week after Harvard Medical School said it would no longer provide data to the publication.

The moves by Stanford Medical School, Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggest a prolonged cascading effect after Yale Law School said in November that it wouldn’t provide data for U.S. News’s law-school rankings. More than a dozen other top-ranked schools—including Stanford Law School—followed suit. Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley said the law schools’ decisions compelled him to act.