Is there any place to acquire previous grad school rankings?

[iammaffyou]

I am interested in the schools I applied to are on an upward or downward trend

[bakalamba]

You can usually find previous versions of the U.S. News rankings in college libraries. Although there's barely anything scientific about these rankings, as they change their metric to make it "better" every year, conveniently pressuring people to buy the latest editions.

 

NRC did graduate school "rankings", but their latest doesn't actually rank schools, and there's a lot of years in between each study.

 

Maybe the best way is more qualitative, asking faculty members to evaluate other programs? In my experience, faculty who I have a good relationship with (or a referral from faculty I worked with) are upfront about what programs are rising or lowering in quality.