Take the following as truth: News made precisely this point, saying it considered only the rank ordering of per-student expenditures, rather than the actual amounts, on the grounds that expenditures at institutions with large research programs and medical schools are substantially higher than those at the rest of the schools in the category.
Then the following statement: "The actual amount of per-student expenditure was more important than the rank ordering. " is true, false, or inconclusive?