Nearly a third of all undergrads are twenty-five or older. Yet no publication ranks the top schools for them—except us.
College Guide
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America’s Best Bang for the Buck Colleges 2018
Our exclusive list of schools that help non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices.
Posted inMagazine, September/October 2018
A Note on Methodology: Best Colleges for Adult Learners
We began with the 3,487 postsecondary institutions in the fifty states and Washington, D.C., that were listed in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) as being active in the 2016–17 academic year and had a Carnegie basic classification in 2015 of between 1 and 23, excluding many colleges that only grant certificates as well […]
Posted inMagazine, September/October 2018
A Note on Methodology: 4-year Colleges and Universities
To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with the 1,739 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 2015 Carnegie basic classification of research, master’s, baccalaureate, and baccalaureate/associate’s colleges, are not exclusively graduate colleges, participate […]
Posted inHigher Education, Magazine, September/October 2005
The Washington Monthly’s 2005 College Guide
Other guides ask what colleges can do for you. We ask what colleges are doing for the country.
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The Washington Monthly College Rankings
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY COLLEGE RANKINGS …. In what college ranking does UCLA come out ahead of Harvard? Texas A&M over Yale? No, football has nothing to do with it. The difference between other rankings and the Washington Monthly College Rankings is that ours are dedicated not to which universities are best for you, but which universities are best for the country. […]
