Columbia University cuts ties with U.S. News college rankings.

Columbia University has announced that it will no longer submit data to the U.S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate colleges and universities, citing the "outsized influence" rankings may have with prospective students and how they distill a university's profile into a composite of data categories. Many prominent law schools and medical schools around the country in recent months have announced they will no longer cooperate with U.S. News rankings in their fields.