Our one-of-a-kind list of schools that help non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices.
September/October 2019
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When Leaving Your Children Is a Selfless Act
How one family’s journey from the Philippines to Texas tells the story of global migration.
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Democrats Need More Than Demographic Change to Win
Why the GOP’s inevitable demographic demise may not be so inevitable.
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Drowning In Free Speech
In the age of Facebook and Google, can the marketplace of ideas be saved?
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Why It’s So Hard to Build Trust In Government
Americans literally can’t believe popular public programs are public.
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The Journalist Who Changed How We See Gay America
Randy Shilts was stubbornly committed to truth telling—no matter the cost.
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Lincoln the Politician
The president most known for his moral vision was also a master political operator.
Posted inCollege Guide, Magazine, September/October 2019
A Note on Methodology: 4-year Colleges and Universities
To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with the 1,732 colleges in the fifty states that are listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and have a 2018 Carnegie basic classification of research, master’s, baccalaureate, and baccalaureate/associate’s colleges, are not exclusively graduate colleges, participate […]
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A Note on Methodology: Affordable Elites
Our “affordable elite” ranking consists of the 208 four-year universities included in our main rankings (see page 105 for general inclusion criteria) that were in the highest selectivity categories in Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges. This includes the very competitive+, highly competitive, highly competitive+, and most competitive categories. We used the following six measures of […]
Posted inCollege Guide, Magazine, September/October 2019
A Note on Methodology: Best Colleges for Adult Learners
We began with the 3,295 postsecondary institutions in the fifty states and Washington, D.C., that were listed in the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) as being active in the 2017–18 academic year and had a Carnegie basic classification in 2018 of between 1 and 23, excluding many colleges that only grant […]
