Gourman Report

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,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] [cite journal | last=O'Reilly | first=Charles | coauthors=O'Reilly, Rosella | month=March | year=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] 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. [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 | month=January | year=2002 ] The "Princeton Review", a for-profit publisher of achievement tests and college guidebooks, publishes the "Gourman Report".

ee also

* College and university rankings
* Philosophical Gourmet Report

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