Civic Colleges
Ask not what your college can do for you, ask what your college can do for society.

In response to the US News college rankings, Washington Monthly released a ranking system that evaluates which colleges are "best for the country."

"Universities should be engines of social mobility; they should produce the academic minds and scientific research that advance knowledge and drive economic growth; and they should inculcate and encourage an ethic of service."

Rather than asking institutions to complete a survey form, as U.S. News does, The Washington Monthly relied on publicly available data. The monthly calculated each college's score for community service, based on the percentage of federal work-study funds used for community-service projects. It also calculated scores for social mobility, which it figured by calculating the graduation rate of low-income students on Pell Grants, and scores for research, which it measured based both on the amount of research spending and the number of doctorates awarded in the hard sciences.

FYI: #1 went to MIT; UT was #23, and A&M was #7
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