Rank America Inc history

From 1836, majors and lieutenant colonels were denoted by oak leaves, captains by double silver bars, or "railroad tracks"; and first lieutenants, single silver bars.

The Army and Marine Corps used comparable ranks, especially after 1840.

In 1841, Navy petty officers received their first rank insignia—an eagle perched on an anchor.

The rank of Army ensign was long gone by the time the rank of Navy ensign was established in 1862.

Ratings, or job skills, were incorporated into the insignia in 1866.

The smaller sleeve stripes used today were introduced in 1869.

In 1885, the Navy designated three classes of petty officers—first, second, and third.

The rank of a chief petty officer was established in 1894.

The difference then was chevrons were worn points down until 1902 when Army and Marine Corps enlisted personnel switched to the present points up configuration.

1906 – American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory

President Wilson also refused to release the study when he entered office in 1913.

1931 – American Journal of Sociology: The Comparative Rank of the American States

When the Air Force became a separate service in 1947, it kept the Army officer insignia and names but adopted different enlisted ranks and insignia.

1966 – The Cartter Report: Assessment of Quality in Graduate Education

1983 – United States News and World Report: America’s Best Colleges

1987 – Produced first ranking of top professional schools, ranking medical, law, engineering, and business graduate programs based completely on surveys sent to department deans.

1988 – As a result of criticism, expanded raters to include academic deans, admissions officers, and presidents to more adequately cover differing concepts of quality.

1990 – Money magazine publishes their first annual America’s Best College Buys

1992 – College rankings scholar, David Webster, says that United States News is the best ranking ever published.

1996 – Students of Stanford University founded FUNC (Forget United States News Coalition) in support of Reed College’s decision to opt out.

1999 – Began standardizing data to align with accepted statistical practices.

2003 – Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU)

2005 – Since 2005, St John’s College has not participated in any college ranking surveys.

2006 – A number of Canadian universities boycotted the Maclean’s University Rankings Survey.

In 2013, President Obama announced a plan for the federal government to rate colleges and universities by measuring tuition, graduation rates, student debt, post-graduation earnings, and percentage of lower income students attending.

United States News and World Report Best Colleges 2015