The 2013 Washington Monthly College Guide Is Here

Daniel Luzer:

The 2013 Washington Monthly college rankings are out.

This is our answer to U.S. News & World Report, which relies on crude and easily manipulated measures of wealth, exclusivity, and prestige (basically how fancy they are) for its rankings. Instead, we rate schools based on what they are doing for the country -- on whether they're improving social mobility, producing research, and promoting public service.

The Washington Monthly's unique methodology yields strikingly different results.

Only two of U.S. News' top ten schools, Stanford and Harvard, make the Washington Monthly's top ten. Yale and Dartmouth don't even crack our top 50

Instead, the University of California - San Diego (our #1 national university for the third year in a row) and the University of Texas - El Paso (unranked byU.S. News but #7 on our list) leave several members of the Ivy League in the dust.

While all the top twenty U.S. News universities are private, 14 of the top twenty Washington Monthly universities are accessible, affordable, high-quality public universities.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 30, 2013 12:50 AM
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