All five schools notified U.S. News that they had supplied the publication with incorrect information to calculate their 2019 Best Colleges rankings. For the next three years, the publication will require top leaders at UC Berkeley and Johnson & Wales to write letters certifying the information they provide is correct, according to letters sent to the schools and posted on its website.
Other schools have come under fire for submitting false data. In May, U.S. News announced that the University of Oklahoma had inflated its alumni giving rate for the past 20 years.
