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Friday, August 11, 2006
Ohio colleges get some respect
(Move in day 2005 at Miami U. — Ohio’s fourth best college?)
Washington Monthly has an axe to grind. Its editors don’t like the U.S. News and World Report annual rankings of U.S. colleges. Instead of just complaining about U.S. News’ approach, they got a better idea — they did their own list.
And overall, Ohio’s schools come out looking pretty good. Ohio State and Ohio U. are among the big winners. But local colleges Miami and Dayton are among the big losers.
I spotted this first at the Roanoke Times’ Campus Watch blog.
Washington Monthly thought schools should be judged not by academic reputation alone, but by how well they spend our tax dollars. So they looked for colleges that moved kids up the income scale (helping poor kids get rich, for instance), did good research and promoted community service. More on Washington Monthly’s methodology here.
The full list is quite different than U.S. News. Here’s how Ohio schools ranked, with their U.S. News rating in parenthesis:
No. 27 Ohio State University (60)
No. 40 Ohio University (109)
No. 56 Kent State University (Not Rated)
No. 102 Miami University (66)
No. 118 University of Cincinnati (Not Rated)
No. 140 University of Dayton (104)
No. 146 Bowling Green State University (Not Rated)
No. 171 University of Toledo (Not Rated)
No. 179 University of Akron (Not Rated)
No. 205 Wright State University (No Rated)
No. 215 Cleveland State University (Not Rated)
(Image credit: Cox News Service)
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