Using data from the 2013 administration of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), multilevel models were employed to explore the relationship between student engagement and three institutional ranking schemes: U.S. News, Forbes, and Washington Monthly. Findings reveal few relationships exist between NSSE’s measures of student engagement and the three institutional ranking schemes, except for a negative relationship between the three ranking schemes and student-faculty interactions; implications of these findings are included. Read the full paper