A class action lawsuit accuses the prestigious private university of misleading prospective students with doctored U.S. News rankings data and promoting its online education programs with data that applied only to its in-person courses.
The complaint, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Court, accuses the prestigious private university of promoting its online education programs, run by 2U, with rankings data that applied only to its in-person courses. What’s more, those rankings were based on inaccurate information the university supplied U.S. News to improve its standing.
An internal investigation conducted by the law firm Jones Day found that a former dean told administrators to omit information about its less-competitive in-person and online programs out of concern they would drag down the school’s position on the list. Including data on the hundreds of new online doctoral students would cause USC Rossier to “drop like a rock in the rankings,” the former dean said in a 2016 email, according to the Jones Day investigation.
But by the spring of this year, Favell began second-guessing her decision after learning about the rankings scandal.
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