Washington Monthly's annual ranking of top US colleges

[Anonymous]

Hello DCUMs, here are The Washington Monthly annual ranking of top US colleges. I like the methodology.

1) Stanford
2) Penn
3) MIT
4) Princeton
5) Duke
6) Harvard
7) Yale
8) Cornell
9) University of California Berkeley
10) Notre Dame
11) University of California Davis
12) Dartmouth
13) Brigham Young (UT)
14) California Institute of Tech
15) Georgetown
16) University of Wisconsin
17) University of Illinois
18) National Louis University (IL)
19) University of Washington
20) University of California San Diego

What are everybody’s thoughts on this list? Spot on or missed the mark? I felt this is extremely appropriate given it is technically a local (DC) publication even if it is nationally distributed.

[Edit by Admin: The original post mistakenly attributed this list to The Washingtonian rather than the Washington Monthly. The title and text of this post have been updated to correct the error. ]

[Anonymous]

PS: I got this link from a response to one of the other posts.

[Anonymous]

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2022-college-guide/national/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://washingtonmonthly.com/2022-college-guide/national/

Washington Monthly and the Washingtonian are different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://washingtonmonthly.com/2022-college-guide/national/

Washington Monthly and the Washingtonian are different.

Thank you. I did not catch that. 😊

[Anonymous]

Literally no one cares about this ranking. Completely bogus

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised Johns Hopkins is not within the top 20.

[Anonymous]

National Louis University?

*head scratcher*

[Anonymous]

This ranking does not make the top 30.

[Anonymous]

This is nothing more than a scam ad for National Louis University--which was originally named Miss Harrison's training School.

[Anonymous]

What is the rank criteria, op?

[Anonymous]

Any similar rankings for LACs?

[Anonymous]

UC Davis listed higher than UCSD, Santa Barbara and UCLA alone makes this a total head scratcher. Not even touching anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the rank criteria, op?

Here is the methodology.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/08/28/a-note-on-methodology-4-year-colleges-and-universities-13/

[Anonymous]

UVA is not on the list, so it's obviously a piece of crap.