University of Washington Seattle Makes Washington Monthly Top 10 College List - MIT, Caltech does NOT make the list. UC Riverside (???) also makes the list which is a real head scracther.
Washington Monthly's top-10 national universities
1. University of California-San Diego
2. Texas A&M University
3. Stanford University
4. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
5. University of California-Berkeley
6. University of California-Los Angeles
7. Case Western Reserve University
8. University of Washington-Seattle
9. University of California-Riverside??? Huh?
10. Georgia Institute of Technology
A few other Washington schools also did well on Washington Monthly's list, which is broken down by three categories: national universities, master's-degree-granting universities and liberal arts colleges. Whitworth University in Spokane was ninth on the list of schools that grant master's degrees, The Evergreen State College was 29th, Seattle University 42nd, Gonzaga University 66th, and Western Washington University, 71st.
Among liberal arts colleges, Whitman College ranks 30th; the University of Puget Sound, 133rd.
Washington State University, which is on the list of national universities, came in 147th.
Originally published August 26, 2012 at 9:02 PM | Page modified August 27, 2012 at 8:16 AM
Washington Monthly ranks UW 8th in U.S.
A nonprofit magazine based in Washington, D.C., included the University of Washington in its top-10 list of national universities, up from the 23rd spot last year, due in part to the school's affordability.
Seattle Times higher education reporter
A national magazine that ranks colleges according to how much good they do for the nation has put the University of Washington as eighth in the U.S. — up from 23rd a year ago.
Washington Monthly, a national nonprofit magazine that covers politics and culture, rates schools based on the degree to which they improve social mobility, produce research and promote social service. The D.C.-based magazine gave the UW a higher rating this year because it scored well on a new measure: the cost of attending school there.
"What it says is the UW-Seattle does a terrific job graduating the students that it gets, at a price they can afford," said Washington Monthly editor-in-chief Paul Glastris.
The No. 8 position is the highest national ranking the UW has ever achieved, aside from issue-specific rankings. (Sierra Magazine ranked the UW first for its sustainability efforts last year, and fourth this year.)
Last year, U.S. News ranked the UW 42nd. Its top-20 list is usually stacked with private schools charging annual tuitions of $40,000 or more. In contrast, the Monthly's top-10 list is largely made up of public research universities. Its number-one school? University of California-San Diego.
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