Washington Monthly : 2020 college rankings

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St. John's # 225 of 389 in the national university category

**Note: this ranking has much different methodology than others like US News & World Report, Forbes etc.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/31/our-2020-college-rankings-are-out-see-how-your-school-did/

The Washington Monthly magazine today released its 2020 College Guide and Rankings, the socially conscious alternative to U.S. News & World Report. While U.S. News rewards colleges and universities for their wealth, exclusivity, and prestige, the Monthly ranks them on how well they serve the country as a whole—by recruiting and graduating non-wealthy students, encouraging student activism, and producing research and technologies that create high-paying jobs and address threats like climate change.
 
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[quote="RedStormNC" post=397340]St. John's # 225 of 389 in the national university category

**Note: this ranking has much different methodology than others like US News & World Report, Forbes etc.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/31/our-2020-college-rankings-are-out-see-how-your-school-did/

The Washington Monthly magazine today released its 2020 College Guide and Rankings, the socially conscious alternative to U.S. News & World Report. While U.S. News rewards colleges and universities for their wealth, exclusivity, and prestige, the Monthly ranks them on how well they serve the country as a whole—by recruiting and graduating non-wealthy students, encouraging student activism, and producing research and technologies that create high-paying jobs and address threats like climate change.[/quote]

Having alternative noteworthy criteria for ranking schools is an indicator or just how subjective school rankings can be, even while constructing objective criteria.
 
The Washington Monthly is a left leaning publication using a completely subjective approach to ranking schools meeting their socialist agenda.
Having Jackson State way above us and conservative Fordham way below us is an example.
 
[quote="Class of 72" post=397410]The Washington Monthly is a left leaning publication using a completely subjective approach to ranking schools meeting their socialist agenda.
Having Jackson State way above us and conservative Fordham way below us is an example.[/quote]

I don't know this publication outside of the ranking list, and agree the criteria has a slant to get the outcomes they favor, but most of the methodologies the rankings publishers use is subjective in one way or another.
 
Washington & Lee U., where my youngest daughter went to school, is #4 on their list of best liberal arts colleges and would hardly be considered a bastion of liberal/socialist policies.
 
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