View Full Version : Liberal Rag Publishes Shocking College Rankings
Extra Stout
08-07-2006, 07:21 PM
The liberal rag Washington Monthly recently published its rebuttal to the now-ubiquitously-read US News and World Report rankings. Rather than trying to identify the "best" schools overall, WM endeavored to identify which schools were "best for society." They considered three points: 1) How much does each school engender social mobility (i.e., helping the poor become rich, rather than helping the rich become richer); 2) how much does each school promote scientific and humanistic research; and 3) how much does each school promote an ethic of service toward its country.
Some of the schools are what you would expect from a ranking done by liberals. At least one in the top 10 is a jaw-dropping shock.
So here it is, Washington Monthly's 10 Best Colleges List as per the Liberal Ethos:
1) MIT
2) Univ of California @ Berkeley
3) Penn State
4) UCLA
5) Texas A&M :flypig
6) Univ of California @ San Diego
7) Stanford
8) Cornell
9) South Carolina State
10) Univ of California @ Davis
Spurminator
08-07-2006, 07:26 PM
mookie's head just esploded.
exstatic
08-07-2006, 08:18 PM
So did AHF's. :lol
Aggie Hoopsfan
08-07-2006, 09:01 PM
:lol Given their criteria, especially the one about service towards one's own country, that's not really surprising.
johngateswhiteley
08-07-2006, 09:32 PM
...beautiful. and not surprisingly, 5 schools from my beloved state. now why wasn't USC on that list? they are huge in the criteria of #2 & #3, but maybe not so much #1....i don't know. not surprisingly 4 of the schools from California were state schools.
johngateswhiteley
08-07-2006, 09:35 PM
OK, that makes sense. i just got the article and here is the top 30 list...as you can see USC is #19. i knew they had to be ranked...
http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/wm.guide.htm
EDIT: Oops, that was last years.
Nbadan
08-08-2006, 01:53 AM
5 Schools from California, 1 in Texas and none in Florida. Sounds about right.
DarkReign
08-08-2006, 01:37 PM
Can someone name a top flight school that isnt supposedly liberal?
I dont see Harvard or Yale on there, am I being lead to believe those are conservative schools?
Extra Stout
08-08-2006, 01:39 PM
Can someone name a top flight school that isnt supposedly liberal?
I dont see Harvard or Yale on there, am I being lead to believe those are conservative schools?
Re-read WM's criteria and answer your own question about Harvard and Yale.
DarkReign
08-08-2006, 01:43 PM
Re-read WM's criteria and answer your own question about Harvard and Yale.
Good point. Total failure of #1.
JoeChalupa
08-15-2006, 01:51 PM
How 'bout them Buckeyes!!!
DarkReign
08-15-2006, 04:39 PM
How 'bout them Buckeyes!!!
w00t, Maurice Clarret!
Phenomanul
08-16-2006, 10:49 AM
MIT Rocks!!!!
Seriously though, that school is the quintessential definition for what an educational facility should strive to be.
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