College Rankings
Washington Monthly just released liberal arts college rankings - as a point of pride I must say that I went to #11 and #147.... and despite their religious leanings they apparently provide very good (or at least decent) educations (respectively).
Their rankings used a different set of criteria than the U.S. News rankings:
"And so, to put The Washington Monthly College Rankings together, we started with a different assumption about what constitutes the "best" schools. We asked ourselves: What are reasonable indicators of how much a school is benefiting the country? We came up with three: how well it performs as an engine of social mobility (ideally helping the poor to get rich rather than the very rich to get very, very rich), how well it does in fostering scientific and humanistic research, and how well it promotes an ethic of service to country. We then devised a way to measure and quantify these criteria (See "A Note on Methodology"). "
Liberal Arts colleges that Wheaton ranked higher than:
12 Carleton College MN (Sorry Erin)
13 Oberlin College OH
14 Grinnell College IA
16 Smith College MA
17 Harvey Mudd College CA
19 Bowdoin College ME
20 Middlebury College VT (Sorry Howie)
22 Spelman College GA
25 Colorado College CO (Sorry Andrew)
26 Bates College ME
28 Macalester College MN
31 Barnard College NY
32 Bucknell University PA
35 Hobart and William Smith Colleges NY
37 Furman University SC (Sorry Nick)
46 Colby College ME (Sorry Frank)
67 Colgate University NY (Sorry Becky)
77 Morehouse College GA (Sorry Howard)
101 Houghton College NY (Sorry Tim)
126 Goshen College IN (Just had to throw that in...)
142 Gordon College MA (Sorry Joss's)
And EMU beat out:
150 Bard College NY
155 Wheaton College MA
156 Gettysburg College PA
157 Susquehanna University PA
184 Bridgewater College VA
Their rankings used a different set of criteria than the U.S. News rankings:
"And so, to put The Washington Monthly College Rankings together, we started with a different assumption about what constitutes the "best" schools. We asked ourselves: What are reasonable indicators of how much a school is benefiting the country? We came up with three: how well it performs as an engine of social mobility (ideally helping the poor to get rich rather than the very rich to get very, very rich), how well it does in fostering scientific and humanistic research, and how well it promotes an ethic of service to country. We then devised a way to measure and quantify these criteria (See "A Note on Methodology"). "
Liberal Arts colleges that Wheaton ranked higher than:
12 Carleton College MN (Sorry Erin)
13 Oberlin College OH
14 Grinnell College IA
16 Smith College MA
17 Harvey Mudd College CA
19 Bowdoin College ME
20 Middlebury College VT (Sorry Howie)
22 Spelman College GA
25 Colorado College CO (Sorry Andrew)
26 Bates College ME
28 Macalester College MN
31 Barnard College NY
32 Bucknell University PA
35 Hobart and William Smith Colleges NY
37 Furman University SC (Sorry Nick)
46 Colby College ME (Sorry Frank)
67 Colgate University NY (Sorry Becky)
77 Morehouse College GA (Sorry Howard)
101 Houghton College NY (Sorry Tim)
126 Goshen College IN (Just had to throw that in...)
142 Gordon College MA (Sorry Joss's)
And EMU beat out:
150 Bard College NY
155 Wheaton College MA
156 Gettysburg College PA
157 Susquehanna University PA
184 Bridgewater College VA
posted by AK | 12:22
4 Comments:
You know, as fellow Furman alum, I feel that Nick would agree that #37 is damn good. We're like the little school that could.
Oh, and I totally stole this subject matter and posted it on my blog; thanks!
yea wheaties unite!
ha, terry, we won!
glad i didn't apply for the job at gettysburg
i would have been downwardly mobile!
yea bummer dude - but i'm pretty psyched that we made 37- thats 5 spots higher than a few years ago
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