Annual College Rankings
The Washington Monthly's annual college and university rankings (an alternative college guide to the U.S. News and World Report and Forbes College Rankings among domestic publications) began as a research report in 2005. It was introduced as an official set of rankings in the September 2006 issue. The rankings are based upon the following criteria:
- "how well it performs as an engine of social mobility (ideally helping the poor to get rich rather than the very rich to get very, very rich)"
- "how well it does in fostering scientific and humanistic research"
- "how well it promotes an ethic of service to country".
The Washington Monthly College Rankings focuses on key research outputs, the quality level and total dollar amount of scientific grants awarded, the number of graduates going on to earn Ph.D.s and the number of graduates that later participate in public service.
The current (2011) top ranked National University is the University of California, San Diego for the second year in a row. The most recent (2009) top ranked Liberal Arts College is Amherst College; the top ranked Master's University (2011) is Creighton University; and the top ranked Baccalaureate College (2011) is Tuskegee College.
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