Indicator 11.7
Washington Monthly Rankings, 2005 to 2007
| Ranking Among National Universities | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Berkeley | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Davis | 17 | 10 | 8 |
| Irvine | - | 72 | 49 |
| Los Angeles | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Riverside | - | 22 | 15 |
| San Diego | 8 | 6 | 4 |
| Santa Barbara | - | 57 | 36 |
| Santa Cruz | - | 68 | 76 |
| U of Illinois | 13 | 16 | 11 |
| U of Michigan | 10 | 18 | 6 |
| SUNY at Buffalo | - | 203 | 111 |
| U of Virginia | 22 | 20 | 16 |
| Harvard | 16 | 28 | 27 |
| MIT | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Stanford | 5 | 7 | 9 |
| Yale | 15 | 12 | 38 |
The Washington Monthly developed its ranking scheme in 2005 as an alternative to U.S. News and World Report’s best colleges rankings.
Unlike USNWR, which tends to rank colleges and universities on their wealth, the Washington Monthly ranks colleges and universities on their contribution to society. Its measures include: 1) being an engine of social mobility, 2) fostering scientific and humanistic research, and 3) fostering an ethic of service to the country.
The Washington Monthly published a list of its top 30 national universities in 2005 and expanded the list to include all national universities in subsequent years.
You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.