WSJ Rankings 2025

[Anonymous]

https://www.wsj.com/rankings/college-rankings/best-colleges-2025
https://www.wsj.com/rankings/college-rankings/best-colleges-2024

I have to say, I find it hard to believe in the credibility of a ranking that can have a school in the top 10 one year and outside the top 100 the next. Amherst College: #8 to #120.

[Anonymous]

gift link?

[Anonymous]

Maybe the interns are doing the rankings 😂

[Anonymous]

Oh, this is going to be delicious. Tantrums starting in 3...2...1...

[Anonymous]

Paywalled. But Babson is number 2, so that's going to be well received.

[Anonymous]

Bentley university? Have never heard of this place

[Anonymous]

Towson Universty at number 40 in the U.S.– wow!

[Anonymous]

Top 20 for those interested without subscriptions:
1: Princeton
2: Babson
3: Stanford
4: Yale
5: Claremont McKenna
6: MIT
7: Harvard
8: Berkeley
9: Georgia Tech
10: Davidson
11: Bentley
12: UC Davis
13: Penn
14: Columbia
15: Lehigh
16: San Jose State
17: Notre Dame
18: UC Merced
19: Virginia Tech
20: Harvey Mudd

I kind of like the list - very pre-professional focused and makes sense for the type who read WSJ. Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 20 for those interested without subscriptions:
1: Princeton
2: Babson
3: Stanford
4: Yale
5: Claremont McKenna
6: MIT
7: Harvard
8: Berkeley
9: Georgia Tech
10: Davidson
11: Bentley
12: UC Davis
13: Penn
14: Columbia
15: Lehigh
16: San Jose State
17: Notre Dame
18: UC Merced
19: Virginia Tech
20: Harvey Mudd

I kind of like the list - very pre-professional focused and makes sense for the type who read WSJ. Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.

How much is Claremont McKenna paying to be at the top of all these rankings?

[Anonymous]

Actually, I looked beyond the top 20 and the list doesn't really make sense - some not very good schools in top 100, like UC Merced but without the upward mobility component.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 20 for those interested without subscriptions:
1: Princeton
2: Babson
3: Stanford
4: Yale
5: Claremont McKenna
6: MIT
7: Harvard
8: Berkeley
9: Georgia Tech
10: Davidson
11: Bentley
12: UC Davis
13: Penn
14: Columbia
15: Lehigh
16: San Jose State
17: Notre Dame
18: UC Merced
19: Virginia Tech
20: Harvey Mudd

I kind of like the list - very pre-professional focused and makes sense for the type who read WSJ. Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.

How much is Claremont McKenna paying to be at the top of all these rankings?

Haha - I went to an Ivy and my kid goes to CMC. If I could do it over again - I would go to CMC.

[Anonymous]

Davidson at 10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 20 for those interested without subscriptions:
1: Princeton
2: Babson
3: Stanford
4: Yale
5: Claremont McKenna
6: MIT
7: Harvard
8: Berkeley
9: Georgia Tech
10: Davidson
11: Bentley
12: UC Davis
13: Penn
14: Columbia
15: Lehigh
16: San Jose State
17: Notre Dame
18: UC Merced
19: Virginia Tech
20: Harvey Mudd

I kind of like the list - very pre-professional focused and makes sense for the type who read WSJ. Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.

So this is the Special Needs list. Which is very thoughtful of the Wall Street Journal. It's not often you see UC Merced on a top 20 list, along with San Jose State and someplace called Bentley. Babson is a hair salon place, right. Kudos to the WSJ for their public service project.

[Anonymous]

These rankings have different results than other rankings, and that’s OK. It’s nice to have different rankings based on different methodologies because different people value different things. Traditionally strong schools in this ranking show that they not only have prestige and rigorous academics, but that those traditional qualities translate to outcomes and opportunities for their students. I like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 20 for those interested without subscriptions:
1: Princeton
2: Babson
3: Stanford
4: Yale
5: Claremont McKenna
6: MIT
7: Harvard
8: Berkeley
9: Georgia Tech
10: Davidson
11: Bentley
12: UC Davis
13: Penn
14: Columbia
15: Lehigh
16: San Jose State
17: Notre Dame
18: UC Merced
19: Virginia Tech
20: Harvey Mudd

I kind of like the list - very pre-professional focused and makes sense for the type who read WSJ. Methodology is 70% Student Outcomes, 20% Learning Environment, and 10% Diversity, with each of those broken up with different metrics.

So this is the Special Needs list. Which is very thoughtful of the Wall Street Journal. It's not often you see UC Merced on a top 20 list, along with San Jose State and someplace called Bentley. Babson is a hair salon place, right. Kudos to the WSJ for their public service project.

Enough traditionally high-ranking schools are also high in this ranking that the methodology has some merit. Instead of immediately discrediting the rankings without reviewing the methodology just because your school ranks lower than you had hoped and that others rank higher, it might make more sense to understand why your school ranks lower. Imagine, you might learn something that you obviously don’t already know.