Oklahoma found a rather creative way to end up among the top 100 universities and colleges: give the company that makes the rankings false data for two decades.
U.S. News & World Report, which puts together the annual Best Colleges rankings, told CNN that the University of Oklahoma gave "inflated" data on its alumni giving rates for 20 years. These numbers make up 5% of the formula used to rank colleges because "giving measures student satisfaction and post-graduate engagement."
Oklahoma cracked the top-100 on the list for the first time in the school's history last year, coming in at No. 97. The then-president was hilariously proud of cracking the top-100 in a mostly arbitrary list, which we now know only happened because of falsified data.
"This recognition marks a truly historic moment for the university," then-President David Boren said at the time.
U.S. News & World Report said Oklahoma would be listed as unranked the 2019 edition of the rankings because of the falsified data.
