SIU - good news?

I don't really buy into these annual surveys to much, there is almost no data involved. But like standardize testing for 8th graders, where there is smoke there is fire. SIU has gone up to a 3rd tier university instead of being 4th tier in the "U.S. News and World Report 2007 college ranking report." They were 3rd tier recently, so I'm not sure this is anything but SIU reporting the data better or the criteria has changed slightly.

Hopefully, SIU will adapt a management policy that will allow the move up to become an expected yearly tradition.

Turns out that University of Chicago has recently moved up too. They weren't turning in the true stats because they were still keeping them by hand. Oops.