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Ask not what college can do for you; ask what your college is doing for America. That’s the Kennedy-esque premise on which Washington Monthly<\/a> [WM] bases its 2010 rankings of American colleges<\/a>, universities, community colleges and graduate schools. WM\u2019s rankings\u2014published in the magazine’s September\/October 2010 issue\u2014are strikingly different from those in the more-famous \u201cBest Colleges\u201d list published annually by US News & World Report<\/em>. Washington Monthly explains:<\/p>\n

This is our answer to U.S. News & World Report<\/em>, which relies on crude and easily manipulated measures of wealth, exclusivity, and prestige 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.<\/p>\n
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Morehouse College commencement<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n
Based on WM\u2019s standards, top-ranked schools in U.S News\u2014for example, the highly sought after Yale and Princeton–don\u2019t even crack the top 20. They\u2019re superseded by schools like the University of California San Diego and South Carolina State University, \u201ca school relegated to a bottom tier in U.S. News.\u201d<\/p>\n
Using Washington Monthly\u2019s criteria, the top liberal arts college in the country is Morehouse College, a historically black, all-male school in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
How does Washington Monthly come to these iconcoclastic conclusions? It\u2019s all about the methodology. WM rates schools…<\/a><\/p>\n
based on their contribution to the public good<\/a> in three broad categories: Social Mobility<\/strong> (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research<\/strong> (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service<\/strong> (encouraging students to give something back to their country).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cColleges should be judged not just on who they enroll and how many graduate but on what students do with their lives after they leave,\u201d says Washington Monthly.<\/p>\n
This approach offers a striking contrast to that of U.S. News<\/a>, which describes its own ranking procedure this way:<\/p>\n
\u2026We gather data from and about each school in 16 areas related to academic excellence. Each indicator is assigned a weight (expressed as a percentage) based on our judgments about which measures of quality matter most. Third, the colleges are ranked based on their composite weighted score. We publish the numeric rank of roughly the top three-fourths of schools in each of the 10 categories; the remaining lowest ranked schools in each category are placed into the Second Tier\u2026<\/p>\n
Indicators used to measure academic quality fall into seven broad areas: peer assessment; retention and graduation of students; faculty resources; student selectivity; financial resources; alumni giving; and (for national universities and national liberal arts colleges) “graduation rate performance,” the difference between the proportion of students expected to graduate and the proportion who do and high school counselor ratings\u2026.For national universities and national liberal arts colleges, the U.S. News<\/em> ranking formula gives the most weight (22.5 percent) to peer assessment scores a combination of the academic peer score at 15.0 percent and the high schools counselor rating score at 7.5 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To be fair, U.S News has made changes to its ranking process over the years. This year, its list displays rankings for the top 75 percent of schools in each category, up from 50 percent. In addition, U.S. News has given more weight to graduation rates than in the past. [An FAQ page gives a complete explanation of the methodology U.S. news uses to rank colleges<\/a>.]<\/p>\n
Washington Monthly began its research into colleges in 2005, thinking that it would be an interesting, one-time exercise. Washington Monthly observed that \u201cwhile jobs that allow you to lose billions of other people\u2019s dollars and wreck the economy before you turn thirty have traditionally been limited to graduates of a few select institutions, a steady focus on service has not.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, its first college guide, and those that have followed, called attention to service-oriented schools, in an effort to highlight the value of service as \u201claying the foundation for the kind of nation we want to become.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s rankings include a new category often dismissed by other lists: community colleges<\/a>. Also, in response a rising demand among students for service opportunities, the 2010 report expands what it looks at to determine service rankings: In addition to rating colleges on the number of students participating in ROTC and the Peace Corps, WM factors new factors, including how many students engage in community service, and whether a college provides matching dollars for service-oriented scholarships like AmeriCorps.<\/p>\n
To get a flavor of the rankings, here are some of the surprises you\u2019ll find in a detailed look at the charts<\/a>:<\/p>\n
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While the top 20 national universities on the U.S News rankings are private schools, 13 of Washington Monthly\u2019s top 20 are taxpayer supported.<\/li>\n
South Carolina State and the Newark campus of Rutgers University outrank University of Michigan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania [34], NYU [47] and Notre Dame [57].<\/li>\n
Five of WM\u2019s top eleven universities are part of the University of California system.<\/li>\n
Washington University in St. Louis, ranked #12 by U.S. News, ranks 36^{th<\/sup>,\u00a0 according to Washington Monthly, \u201cin part because only 5 percent of its undergraduates qualify for}Pell Grants.<\/a>“<\/li>\n
Boston’s Northeastern University, 18^{th<\/sup> on U.S. News, is 172^{nd<\/sup> in Washington Monthly, \u201cbecause it enrolls few low-income students and has a lower graduation rate than it should.”<\/li>\n}}
Washington-DC area colleges American University, George Washington and the University of Virginia do poorly in the Washington Monthly rankings \u201cbecause they have Pell Grant rates of 10 percent or less”\u00a0 \u201cEveryone pays for these institutions through tax subsidies and federal grants, but for the most part, only the well-off need to apply,\u201d says WM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
One can only hope that parents, students, guidance counselors, media commentators and other universities will look at the Washington Monthly approach, look at themselves and their aspirations, and come to some new conclusions about what makes a college or university \u201cthe best.\u201d<\/p>\n
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