Washington Monthly College Rankings

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The “Research” column has some good numbers. However, they aren’t normalized for size. And why count only Science & Engineering PhDs? Again, it isn’t set up so much to inform individual college choice as to measure somebody’s notion of social benefit from the greatest number of do-gooders. It’s the Jeremy Bentham ranking.

That’s the only good thing about this ranking; unlike most others, it doesn’t try to accomplish the impossible (informing individual college choice…)</p>