“A new ACE issue brief finds that college rankings often have detrimental effects on institutions and that students—particularly low-income students—do not use them when choosing among their higher education options. The ACE Center for Policy, Research & Strategy’s Rankings, Institutional Behavior, and College and University Choice is intended to add research-based context to the Obama administration’s plan to rate colleges on value and affordability. It explores research on college rankings based on widespread concern in the higher education community that the administration’s proposed system will become another de facto ranking and be treated as such by students, their families and institutions.”