Administrators evaluate schools in their own category on a scale from one to four.
It is worth noting that only sixty-two percent of the respondents solicited returned the reputational survey. This is one of the evaluative categories Gerhard Casper objected to in his letter to US News editor James Fallows. In the category of graduation rates, UO may not have performed so well - but as Gerhard Casper points out, a weak performance in this category may indicate a range of attributes of a given university that are not negative but positive. The graduation rate may be low because the institution is rigorous. This figure represents the resources that institutions devote to instruction.