Sorting big data by revealed preference with application to college ranking

Journal of Big Data

Table 1 Ranks for the same college: the UCLA case

Source	ARWU [1]	Forbes [19]	US News-college [41]	Business Insider	WSJ / Times [40, 42]	Washington Monthly [43]
Rank	9	31	19	22	12	8

Source	QS [37]	Niche [32]	US News-global [41]	Princeton Review [35]	Avery [2]	Parchment [33]
Rank	16	26	9	5	28	18

ARWU [1] and QS [37] for Academic Ranking of World Universities and Quacquarelli Symonds [37], respectively
From websites cited in the reference, accessed 18 March 2019
Liberal arts colleges and military academies are excluded