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Posted inCollege Guide, Magazine, September/October 2019
When College Rankings Get Personal
After fifteen years of publishing the Washington Monthly College Guide, I’ve finally become a customer.
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America’s Affordable Elite Colleges 2019
Which selective schools give high-achieving, non-wealthy students a break—and which break their bank accounts?
Posted inCollege Guide, Magazine, September/October 2019
America’s Best Colleges for Student Voting 2019
The schools doing the most to turn students into citizens.
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America’s Best Colleges for Adult Learners 2019
Nearly a third of all college students are twenty-five or older. Yet no publication ranks the top schools for them—except us.
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America’s Best Bang for the Buck Colleges 2019
Our one-of-a-kind list of schools that help non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices.
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 […]
Posted inCollege Guide, Magazine, September/October 2019
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 […]
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‘Never Too Late’ is the first book for adults who are thinking of going back to college.
