Gourman Report
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The '''Gourman Report''' is Dr. Jack Gourman's ranking of undergraduate programs and professional programs in American and International Universities. It has been criticized for not disclosing criteria or ranking methods,<ref name="selingo">{{cite journal | last=Selingo | first=Jeffrey | url=http://chronicle.com/free/v44/i11/11a00101.htm | title=A Self-Published College Guide Goes Big-Time, and Educators Cry Foul | journal=Chronicle of Higher Education | date=1997-11-07 | accessdate=2008-02-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last=O'Reilly | first=Charles | coauthors=O'Reilly, Rosella | date=March 1987 | url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/n07u5683507480g4/ | title=The Gourman report: Misinformation about the quality of graduate social work education | journal=Research in Higher Education | volume=27 | issue=1 | doi=10.1007/BF00992307 | pages=85}}</ref>
as well as for reporting statistically impossible data, such as no ties among schools, narrow gaps in scores with no variation in gap widths, and ranks of nonexistent departments.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Bedeian | first=Arthur G. | url=http://www.siop.org/tip/backissues/tipjan02/07bedeian.aspx | title=Caveat Emptor: The Gourman Report | journal=The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist | date=January 2002 }}</ref>
The ''[[Princeton Review]]'', a for-profit publisher of achievement tests and college guidebooks, publishes the ''Gourman Report''.<ref name="selingo"> </ref>
==See also==
* [[College and university rankings]]
* [[Philosophical Gourmet Report]]
==References==
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