Wall Street Journal College Rankings September 18, 2020

College Search & Lists
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The WSJ / THE US College Rankings are based on 4 areas: Outcomes 40%, Resources 30%, Engagement 20%, & Environment 10%.

I have refigured the WSJ / THE rankings based on only the two primary factors which represent value for students: “Outcomes” & “Resources”.

Among approximately 3,500 four year degree granting institutions, it is significant to be included among the 500 colleges & universities ranked by the WSJ / THE.

Annual rankings based on endowments include about 800 colleges & universities so being among the top 500 colleges & universities seems significant.

Below are the WSJ / THE top 50 schools for value as I have recalculated them by combining scores for outcomes ranking and for resources ranking. I did this in large part because I have concerns over the value of the rankings for engagement which are subjective and compiled from student surveys.

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Recalculated ranking based on the two most important factors (“outcomes” & “resources”) in the WSJ /THE US College Rankings :

Top 50 Revised Rank; school name; total points (“Outcome” score plus “Resources” score)

  1. Harvard 4

  2. Princeton 5

  3. MIT 8

  4. CalTech 9

  5. Duke 16

  6. Northwestern 18

  7. Dartmouth College 18

  8. Yale 19

  9. Stanford 19

  10. Brown 19

  11. Univ. of Chicago 21

  12. Johns Hopkins Univ. 22

  13. Vanderbilt 22

  14. Cornell 23

  15. UPenn 25

  16. Rice 31

  17. Columbia 33

  18. WashUStL 37

  19. Williams College 42

  20. Amherst College 44

  21. USC 45

  22. Carnegie Mellon Univ. 51

  23. Emory University 57

  24. Pomona College 59

  25. Notre Dame 63

  26. Tufts 64

  27. Wellesley College 65

  28. NYU 74

  29. Swarthmore College 75

  30. Univ. of Michigan 78

  31. Claremont McKenna College 80

  32. Middlebury College 82

  33. Haverford College 85

  34. Georgetown 92

  35. Bowdoin College 95

  36. Smith 96

  37. Carleton College 97

  38. Case Western Reserve 98

  39. Boston University 100

  40. Wesleyan University 101

  41. Wash & Lee 110

  42. Colgate University 113

  43. UNC-Chapel Hill 116

  44. Davidson College 118

  45. Bates College 127

  46. Mount Holyoke 129

  47. Vassar College 142

  48. Barnard College 145

  49. Purdue University 155

  50. Boston College 171

UC-Davis 214
UC–San Diego 217
Univ. of Washington-Seattle 222
UCal-Berkeley 243

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Wow, shocked St Peters wasn’t on the list???