USNews Peer Assessment

calmom
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:04:55 +0000

Another ranking:

The first 10 schools on the Washington Monthly’s list of 200 national universities are MIT, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, Cornell, Stanford, Penn State, Texas A&M, UC-San Diego, Pennsylvania and Michigan in that order.

On a separate Washington Monthly list of 200 liberal arts colleges, the first 10 schools are Wellesley, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Bryn Mawr, Harvey Mudd, Fisk, Amherst, Haverford, Wofford, Colby and Spelman.

Their list uses the percentage of students in Army or Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), the percentage of graduates in the Peace Corps, the percentage of federal work-study grants used for community service projects, the total amount of research spending, the number of doctorates granted in the hard sciences and, as a measure of social mobility, the percentage of students on Pell Grants, with a bonus for schools whose graduation rates are higher than expected for having so many low-income students.

“What really did in Princeton were mediocre scores on national service and social mobility, categories in which it should have excelled,” the article says of the new list’s results. It says “Harvard has the lowest percentage of Pell Grant recipients in its student body of any school in the country.”