Colleges with the best value? New rankings upend conventional wisdom - Yahoo! News: Quick, what's the top national university?
Harvard? Princeton? Instead, try the University of California in San Diego.
A set of college rankings released this week by Washington Monthly uses a different sort of metrics than, say, the more familiar kind used by U.S. News & World Report. Rather than seeking to rate universities based on reputation or difficulty of admission, the evaluators looked at how colleges and universities did based on what it considers three public goods: social mobility, commitment to research, and commitment to service.
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