USC investigating its education school for inaccuracies in submissions to U.S. News & World Report rankings

The University of Southern California is pulling its Rossier School of Education from U.S. News & World Report’s next annual ranking of best graduate schools after finding “a history of inaccuracies” in data provided to the magazine, the L.A. Times reported Wednesday.

Details on what information was allegedly inaccurate, the Times reported, were not immediately available. University officials said they were looking back at five years of submissions.

“USC officials have informed the U.S. Department of Education and accreditors of the situation,” the Times reported it was told by Charles Zukoski, USC’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.

USC hired Jones Day, an independent law firm, to investigate the Rossier School’s past submissions to U.S. News & World Report, Zukoski said. The Rossier School was ranked No. 11 in the most recent ranking of best education schools.