Education

E ach of our three categories included several components. We determined the Community Service score by measuring each school’s performance in three different areas: the percentage of their students enrolled in the Army or Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps; the percentage of their students who are currently serving in the Peace Corps; and the percentage […]

Top 10 Universities in Social Mobility, Community Service, and Research

Top 30 Liberal Arts Colleges – 2005

Top 30 National Universities – 2005

T his month, U.S. News & World Report releases its annual rankings of colleges. First published in 1983, the guide has become its own mini-event: College presidents, education reporters, alumni, parents, and high school juniors alike all scramble to get their hands on the rankings. Its release is followed by weeks of gloating from the […]

T here are two primary goals to our methodology. First, we considered no single category to be more important than any other. Second, the final rankings needed to reflect excellence across the full breadth of our measures, rather than reward an exceptionally high focus on, say, research. All categories were weighted equally when calculating the […]

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Download this year’s national university and liberal arts college rankings by clicking on the appropriate images below: Click here to read more about the methodology.

Welcome to One Dupont Circle, where good education-reform ideas go to die.

Irked by what they saw as flaws in U.S. News’s methodology for ranking colleges, a group of reformers in the late 1990s pioneered a new approach. With a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, a panel of educational experts set out to develop a way to quantify how well colleges actually teach their undergraduates. The […]