A new way of measuring how different colleges pay off in the long run.
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Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2011
America’s Best Master’s Universities and Baccalaureate Colleges
In the 130 years since it was founded, Tuskegee University has earned a notable place in the annals of higher education. Booker T. Washington was its first president. George Washington Carver taught there for forty years. It was where the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II trained. And it has produced a steady stream of […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2011
The College For-profits Should Fear
By offering adults an education that is faster, cheaper, and better than the likes of Kaplan, Phoenix, or Capella, the nonprofit Western Governors University just might eat their lunch.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2011
A Note on Methodology: 4-year Colleges and Universities
There 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. Thus, all three main categories were weighted equally when […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2011
Introduction: A Different Kind of College Ranking
A few months ago, the Obama administration completed a remarkably successful run of sticking it to large corporations that make a profit in higher education. First, as part of the omnibus legislation that produced the Affordable Care Act in 2010, Obama pushed through a wholesale reform of the student loan industry, taking away tens of […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2011
The College Try
Every year the Washington Monthly devotes an entire issue to assessing America’s colleges and universities. We do this because we believe they are key to the country’s greatness. They produce the research and human capital that fuel the economy. They teach the habits of mind and spirit that undergird democracy. And they provide the means […]
