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2010 National University Rankings - UCSD #1, UC Berkeley #2, UCLA #3

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Washington Monthly's 2010 national university rankings based on contribution to the public good in three broad categories:

- Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students)
  • Students receiving Pell grants
  • Graduation rate (predicted/actual)
- Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs)
  • Research expenditures
  • Bachelor's to PhD
  • Science & engineering PhD's awarded
  • Faculty receiving significant awards
  • Faculty in national academies
- Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country)
  • Peace Corps
  • ROTC
  • Federal work-study funds spent on service
  • Community service participation and hours served
  • Service staff, courses and financial aid support

Rankings

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1. University of California, San Diego*
2. University of California, Berkeley*
3. University of California, Los Angeles*
4. Stanford University (CA)
5. University of Texas, Austin*
6. University of California, Davis*
7. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor*
8. Syracuse University (NY)
9. Harvard University (MA)
10. College of William and Mary (VA)*
11. University of California, Santa Barbara*
12. University of Chicago
13. U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill*
14. South Carolina State University*
15. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
16. University of Washington*
17. Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
18. Rutgers, St. U. of N.J., Newark*
19. Georgetown University (DC)
20. Texas A&M U., Col. Station*
21. Dartmouth College (NH)
22. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
23. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison*
24. Princeton University (NJ)
25. Rice University (TX)
26. SUNY Col. of Envir. Sci. & For. (NY)*
27. U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign*
28. Tennessee State University*
29. Duke University (NC)
30. University of Rochester (NY)
31. Fordham University (NY)
32. Marquette University (WI)
33. Yale University (CT)
34. University of Pennsylvania
35. Pennsylvania State U., University Park*
36. Washington University in St. Louis
37. Vanderbilt University (TN)
38. Cornell University (NY)
39. Univ. of Southern California
40. Univ. of California, Riverside*
41. California Institute of Technology
42. University of Florida*
43. U. of Minnesota, Twin Cities*
44. University of Virginia*
45. Jackson State University (MS)*
46. Ohio State Univ., Columbus*
47. New York University
48. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
49. Michigan State University*
50. University of California, Irvine*
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51. Clark University (MA)                  76. N.C. State Univ., Raleigh*           101. Catholic Univ. of America (DC)       126. Northern Illinois University*       151. University of Montana*               176. University of Texas, Arlington*        201. Kent State University (OH)*           226. University of Hawaii, Manoa*             251. Idaho State University*
52. Virginia Tech*                         77. University of Dayton (OH)            102. Pepperdine University (CA)           127. Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham*       152. Temple University (PA)*              177. Oral Roberts University (OK)           202. New Mexico State University*          227. Southern Methodist Univ. (TX)            252. University of North Texas*
53. Tufts University (MA)                  78. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)    103. Morgan State University (MD)*        128. Indiana Univ., Bloomington*         153. Southern Illinois U., Carbondale*    178. University of Mississippi*             203. Texas Woman's University*             228. Indiana U.-Purdue U., Indianapolis*      253. Long Island U., C.W. Post (NY)
54. Iowa State University*                 79. SUNY, Binghamton (NY)*               104. University of Pittsburgh*            129. Drexel University (PA)              154. Bowling Green State Univ. (OH)*      179. Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell*        204. Central Michigan University*          229. University of South Florida*             254. Trevecca Nazarene Univ. (TN)
55. University of San Diego                80. Clarkson University (NY)             105. University of Delaware*              130. Worcester Polytech. Inst. (MA)      155. Texas A&M Univ., Kingsville*         180. University of Denver                   205. Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City*       230. Northern Arizona University*             255. Oakland University (MI)*
56. Widener University (PA)                81. Miami Univ., Oxford (OH)*            106. Univ. of Mass., Amherst*             131. Utah State University*              156. Florida International University*    181. U. of Maryland, Baltimore County*      206. University of Tennessee*              231. University of Nevada, Reno*              256. Wichita State University (KS)*
57. University of Notre Dame (IN)          82. Brandeis University (MA)             107. University of St. Thomas (MN)        132. Lehigh University (PA)              157. University of Louisville (KY)*       182. George Mason University (VA)*          207. Stevens Institute of Tech. (NJ)       232. University of Tulsa (OK)                 257. University of New Orleans*
58. Rutgers, St. U. of N.J., New Brun.*    83. Purdue U., W. Lafayette (IN)*        108. Florida State University*            133. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder*         158. Illinois Institute of Tech.          183. Oklahoma State University*             208. University of Wyoming*                233. Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock*          258. University of Alaska, Fairbanks*
59. Boston College                         84. Colorado State University*           109. University of Iowa*                  134. Wright State University (OH)*       159. University of Maine*                 184. Ball State University (IN)*            209. University of Utah*                   234. University of West Florida*
60. Tulane University (LA)                 85. Spalding University (KY)             110. Mississippi State University*        135. Brigham Young U., Provo (UT)        160. Washington State University*         185. University of Oklahoma*                210. Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston*       235. Florida Atlantic University*
61. Clark Atlanta University (GA)          86. American University (DC)             111. University of Alabama*               136. East Carolina University (NC)*      161. Arizona State University*            186. Virginia Commonwealth Univ.*           211. Cleveland State University (OH)*      236. Nova Southeastern University (FL)
62. Clemson University (SC)*               87. Emory University (GA)                112. DePaul University (IL)               137. Portland State University (OR)*     162. Wayne State University (MI)*         187. Old Dominion University (VA)*          212. Adelphi University (NY)               237. University of Houston*
63. Brown University (RI)                  88. North Carolina A&T State Univ.*      113. Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania*       138. Indiana State University*           163. East Tennessee State University*     188. Kansas State University*               213. Missouri U. of Sci. & Tech.*          238. University of Arkansas*
64. Georgia Institute of Technology*       89. St. Louis University                 114. University of Oregon*                139. Univ. of Southern Mississippi*      164. U. of North Carolina, Charlotte*     189. New Jersey Inst. of Tech.*             214. University of North Dakota*           239. Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis*
65. Northwestern University (IL)           90. Loyola University Chicago            115. Boston University                    140. Pace University (NY)                165. Michigan Technological Univ.*        190. University of New Mexico*              215. Andrews University (MI)               240. University of Texas, Dallas*
66. St. John's University (NY)             91. U. of Maryland, College Park*        116. University of Vermont*               141. Trinity International Univ. (IL)    166. University of Nevada, Las Vegas*     191. University of Rhode Island*            216. Illinois State University*            241. University of Akron (OH)*
67. Columbia University (NY)               92. Univ. of Missouri*                   117. Oregon State University*             142. West Virginia University*           167. Hofstra University (NY)              192. Pacific University (OR)                217. University of the Pacific (CA)        242. Louisiana Tech University*
68. University of Idaho*                   93. U. of California, Santa Cruz*        118. University at Albany, SUNY (NY)*     143. University of Illinois, Chicago*    168. University of South Dakota*          193. Georgia State University*              218. Samford University (AL)               243. Immaculata University (PA)
69. Azusa Pacific University (CA)          94. University of Georgia*               119. University of Kentucky*	      144. Baylor University (TX)              169. University of Miami                  194. Louisiana St. U., Baton Rouge*         219. New School (NY)                       244. St. Mary's Univ. of Minnesota
70. Howard University (DC)                 95. University of Arizona*               120. University of La Verne (CA)          145. Ohio University*                    170. University of Bridgeport (CT)        195. University of Toledo (OH)*             220. Barry University (FL)                 245. Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville*
71. George Washington Univ. (DC)           96. Univ. of S.C., Columbia*             121. University at Buffalo, SUNY (NY)*    146. Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln*         171. U. of North Carolina, Greensboro*    196. Colorado School of Mines*              221. Texas Tech University*                246. North Dakota State University*
72. Duquesne University (PA)               97. University of Connecticut*           122. Florida Institute of Technology      147. Univ. of New Hampshire*             172. Northeastern University (MA)         197. South Dakota State University*         222. University of Northern Colorado*      247. University of Louisiana, Lafayette*
73. University of San Francisco            98. Polytechnic Inst. of New York U.     123. Biola University (CA)                148. University of Kansas*               173. Texas Christian University           198. University of Cincinnati*              223. University of Hartford (CT)           248. Georgia Southern University*
74. Florida A&M University*                99. SUNY, Stony Brook (NY)*              124. Yeshiva University (NY)              149. University of Texas, El Paso*       174. Seton Hall University (NJ)           199. George Fox University (OR)             224. University of Central Florida*        249. University of Colorado, Denver*
75. Wake Forest University (NC)            100. University of Memphis*              125. Montana State University*            150. Auburn University (AL)*             175. San Diego State University*          200. Texas A&M Univ., Commerce*             225. Western Michigan University*          250. Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee*
Full rankings
*public university



There are a few other lists: Liberal Arts Colleges, Master's Universities, Baccalaureate Colleges, Community Colleges, Dropout Factories



Overall goals of the ranking
Methodology

It wasn’t long ago that the colleges annually anointed as “America’s Best” by U.S. News & World Report— Harvard, Princeton, and Yale—served as fertile breeding grounds for future masters of the financial universe. History majors from New Haven could make the hour-long drive along the Long Island Sound to the hedge funds of Greenwich, Connecticut. The Harvard-to-Wall-Street pipeline was open full bore.

Then all those smart people destroyed their own companies and almost brought the global economy down with them. The credit markets collapsed, demand for goods and services plummeted, and millions of innocent workers lost their jobs. Today’s college graduates face the worst labor market in generations.

As a result, many are looking to do good if they can’t do well. Applications to the Peace Corps jumped 18 percent in 2009. The number of students vying for Teach for America slots increased from 18,000 in 2007 to 46,000 this year.

The renewal of a desire to serve is heartening. But the truth is that while jobs that allow you to lose billions of other people’s dollars and wreck the economy before you turn thirty have traditionally been limited to graduates of a few select institutions, a steady focus on service has not. Many colleges that fall in the middle of the U.S. News pack (or lower) have long been more inclined to spend energy and resources on encouraging students to give back to their communities and their nation, and not just themselves.

Calling attention to these service-oriented schools is one of the reasons this magazine got into the college-ranking business in the first place. When we published our first ranking in 2005 (with the expectation that it would prove a point rather than become a tradition), the idea was to upend the traditional notion of a college guide. Instead of asking what a college could do for you, we asked, “What are colleges doing for the country?” Yes, Yale might educate a disproportionate number of future hedge fund managers. But is it laying the foundation for the kind of nation we want to become?

After all, colleges and universities do as much to shape the future as any institutions you can think of. They conduct cutting-edge research that drives economic growth, provide upward mobility to people of humble birth, and mold the characters of tomorrow’s leaders. And they are supported in these endeavors with hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies. So we all have a stake in knowing how well schools fulfill their public missions.

But while there are plenty of guides out there that help students and parents decide how to spend their tuition dollars wisely, there wasn’t one to tell citizens and policymakers which colleges were spending their tax dollars wisely. So we devised a way to measure and quantify how well individual colleges and universities were meeting their public obligations in the areas of research, service, and social mobility (see “A Note on Methodology,” page 86), and we ranked schools based on the results.

...

The result is a very different perspective on higher education excellence than the one represented by U.S. News. While a few universities like Stanford do well on both rankings, many at or near the top of the U.S. News list, like Princeton and Yale, fare poorly by our count. At the same time, many colleges that are routinely buried in the lower reaches of the U.S. News rankings stand out on our list.

The Public Option

The U.S. News rankings are exclusionary by design: you get ahead based on the number of students you don’t admit. Since private schools are the most selective, it’s not surprising that the top twenty national universities on the U.S. News list are all private. Public institutions that serve a diverse population of students fare much better by our measures. Thirteen of our twenty highest-ranked universities are taxpayer supported, including the top-ranked University of California, San Diego. While some publics, like the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have selective admissions, others like South Carolina State and the Newark campus of Rutgers University serve students of all kinds. Both of the latter topped well-known private universities including the University of Pennsylvania (at number thirty-four), NYU (number forty-seven), and Notre Dame (number fifty-seven).

The University of California stands out—five of our top eleven universities are part of the UC system, with San Diego joined by the campuses at Berkeley, Los Angeles, Davis, and Santa Barbara. Unfortunately, feckless voters and incompetent politicians have spent the last several decades running California into a financial ditch. When the recent recession arrived, higher education took a mighty hit, forcing the university to furlough staff and impose an astonishing 32 percent tuition hike. It’s terrible to watch a wealthy state like California dismantle one of the world’s great university systems. We hope they fix matters before UC schools begin to slide down in our rankings.

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Many colleges reject rankings out of hand, insisting that education is too ineffable for metrics. We disagree. Students and parents need clear, comparable measures in order to make smart choices, particularly given how expensive college has become. Colleges that don’t want to be compared to their peers are just trying to avoid public scrutiny. While colleges do have a point when they complain about U.S. News’s ratings, the problem isn’t that U.S. News ranks colleges, but that it does so based on the wrong factors—like wealth, fame, and selectivity—that incentivize college administrators in the wrong ways. A college president vying for rankings glory on our list, by contrast, would have to enroll more low-income students, help them earn degrees, orient academic programs toward service, and invest in new scientific research. The country needs more of that kind of competition, not less.

...

Thanks to the economic crisis, a lot of colleges are in dire financial straights these days. But the right kind of rankings could be a boon to many of these schools. The best thing about showing what you do for the country is that it gives the country more reasons to do something for you in return. The nation is badly in need of cutting-edge research, wise and knowledgeable citizens and workers, and a renewed focus on service. Our top-ranked colleges are poised to deliver.

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As some readers have pointed out in previous years, our research score rewards large schools for their size. This is intentional. It is the huge numbers of scientists, engineers, and PhDs that larger universities produce, combined with their enormous amounts of research spending, that will help keep America competitive in an increasingly global economy. But the two measures of university research productivity and quality—faculty awards and National Academy members, relative to the number of full-time faculty (from the Center for Measuring University Performance)—are independent of a school’s size. This year’s guide continues to reward large universities for their research productivity, but these two additional measures also recognize smaller institutions that are doing a good job of producing quality research.
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Summary:
"You know all those private schools that make up the identical annual US News rankings every year? The ones who's graduates have fucked over our economy? Well, here are the schools that actually contribute to society through research, PhDs rewarded, educating a broader social demographic, and giving back to the country."
 
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Jamesfrom818

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40	Univ. of California, Riverside*	60	40%	50%	64%	10	$128	96	96	168	67	0.5%	91	0.4%	80	155	199	40%	4	138	138
41	California Institute of Technology	60	10%	100%	88%	234	$285	52	1	185	63	1.7%	4	11.5%	1	49	243	8%	226	138	138
42	University of Florida*	60	21%	77%	82%	73	$593	14	52	557	6	0.4%	109	0.5%	76	45	99	12%	173	109	133
43	U. of Minnesota, Twin Cities*	60	19%	70%	66%	180	$624	11	79	486	11	0.5%	93	0.8%	55	59	156	32%	14	42	81
44	University of Virginia*	59	8%	84%	93%	35	$230	63	31	248	41	0.9%	32	1.3%	37	9	65	11%	184	105	128
45	Jackson State University (MS)*	59	65%	30%	43%	11	$37	156	91	11	217	0.3%	154	0.0%	153	250	39	14%	119	138	138
46	Ohio State Univ., Columbus*	59	17%	74%	73%	145	$720	8	133	536	9	0.7%	72	0.7%	59	86	81	25%	35	75	109
47	New York University	59	16%	85%	85%	138	$298	50	92	211	54	0.6%	80	1.1%	46	77	225	30%	18	33	51
48	Carnegie Mellon University (PA)	59	10%	91%	87%	185	$197	72	15	235	45	0.7%	69	2.7%	15	39	141	21%	60	49	73
49	Michigan State University*	58	19%	63%	75%	17	$361	39	110	286	29	0.5%	105	0.3%	97	41	139	12%	170	66	24
50	University of California, Irvine*	58	26%	65%	81%	5	$310	48	122	297	27	1.3%	15	1.8%	25	97	228	15%	106	138	138
Hahahaha

Fuck you Anteaters of Irvine! Riverside finally beat you at something
 
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Pickles the Firecat

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Wow. I'm actually transferring to UCSD. And am transferring from UCLA, at that.

Pretty cool idea for a list, even though it doesn't really mean anything and probably has ridiculous criteria behind it ala every other college ranking list.
 
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jamesinclair

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You know, the idea makes sense.

This reminds me of that story about this idiot woman who was CEO of a company who gave financial advice. You guys might remember this, she wrote an article telling women how to save money. Advice included stuff like "cutting back on $38 take out meals (for one) and instead eating for free (because if its in your kitchen its free)". Other advice included walking the 1/2 mile to work (from the $1,100 per square foot apartment) instead of spending $10 on a ca.

Her work history included being a financial analyst at Goldman or something.

She came from an ivy, but her major had nothing to do with business. It was history or something.

Goldman (or whoever it was) hired her based on her diploma, or her dad, not what she studied. Can you imagine the other types of people who worked there? 25 year olds who continue to be spoon fed but get payed $200,000 because their dad went to Harvard, and thus, so did they?
 
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StoOgE

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As much as I would love to think of UT Austin as being better than Harvard, Yale, MIT, Brown, etc.. I mean.. :lol
 
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zoku88

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StoOgE said:
As much as I would love to think of UT Austin as being better than Harvard, Yale, MIT, Brown, etc.. I mean.. :lol
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Way to read. It's not in terms of education, but in terms of public good.
 
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A Pretty Panda

fuckin' called it, man
24 Princeton University
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bluemax

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I know McDonald's promises a smile with every meal, but I still don't think that's enough to propel ucla to #3.
 
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quaere

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Assuming the criteria for measuring public good is sound, this ranking shows that HBCUs are still very important and perhaps we should be paying more attention to them.
 
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kittel

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Having been to the highest ranking school and one in the lower tier of OP's list, I'd say it's true :D

Metrics used can be debatable, though
 
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harSon

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I have a hard time believing UC Santa Barbara's position. I'm both pissed and glad that I didn't attend there, there is probably a 99% chance that I would have failed out. Awesome campus to visit and party at though.
 
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Korey

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Aristotlekh said:
Man, it's like every fucking school in California except my school, Pepperdine, got on the list, and Pepperdine is all about white guilt overzealous charity work.
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Pepperdine's #102
 
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The Shadow

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190-University of New Mexico

Whoooo!!!

Not surprised though, based on how they do the rankings. UNM is pretty liberal in who they admit. They're actively trying to change that now.
 
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Puddles said:
Glad to see rankings like this. The Ivy League is so overrated it's not even funny.
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This assumes that many intelligent but unremarkable people are largely responsible for our easy lives. As someone who's not a genius but goes to school with them and who has easy access to Wikipedia, I'm certain that's not the case.

Also, note how many are financial burdens on their states (no, not all public universities, but, say, California's). I wonder why that's irrelevant. Dartmouth pays its way through.
 
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appledrank

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Korey said:
Summary:
"You know all those private schools that make up the identical annual US News rankings every year? The ones who's graduates have fucked over our economy? Well, here are the schools that actually contribute to society through research, PhDs rewarded, educating a broader social demographic, and giving back to the country."
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My favorite part.

Edit: also that University of Miami isn't on the top 100.
 
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ATF487

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UMass at 106th? Shit. That's better than I thought.

I transferred outta there though because UMass didn't have an IT major, new school isn't listed
 
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Cyan

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GhaleonQ said:
Also, note how many are financial burdens on their states (no, not all public universities, but, say, California's). I wonder why that's irrelevant. Dartmouth pays its way through.
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IIRC, UCSD, Cal, and UCLA would all be self-sufficient if not for their association with the rest of the UCs.
 
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