When you stop giving points for snob appeal, the truly excellent ones shine through. Plus, our first-of-its-kind ranking of the best colleges for rural America.
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Best Colleges for Rural America
These small-town universities deliver better value by a country mile.
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America’s Best Colleges for Research
The universities driving American innovation aren’t just in blue states—and neither is the damage from Trump’s research cuts.
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America’s Best Hispanic-Serving Colleges
In a time of enrollment crunch, universities have a moral and existential obligation to serve the one student population that’s growing. We tracked how good a job they’re doing.
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A Different Kind of College Ranking
A college degree is costly, to both students and taxpayers. Here’s the only list that shows which institutions provide good value to both.
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America’s Best Colleges for Research
For the past two decades, the Washington Monthly has included in its annual college rankings measures of a university’s research prowess—its record of producing the new scholarship and scholars that drive economic growth and human flourishing. This year, we’ve put those metrics into a separate ranking, the Best Colleges for Research, which appear at the […]
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Why the U.S. News College Rankings Are Subject to Cheating and How to Fix Them
Here’s how the Washington Monthly’s annual college guide avoids those pitfalls.
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Wrecking the College Pecking Order
Much of higher education has a love/hate relationship with college rankings: love them when their college does well, and refuse to recognize their existence if they ever drop a spot. But most colleges—and selective institutions in particular—play the rankings game in two key ways. First, they spend considerable time and effort putting together data for […]
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Our 2021 College Rankings Are Out: See How Your School Did
The Washington Monthly rates how well schools graduate low-income students, produce groundbreaking scholarship, and encourage students to serve their country.
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Our 2020 College Rankings Are Out: See How Your School Did
Washington Monthly lists the schools where majors popular with Black students lead to well-paying jobs.
