今天小编分享的这个由《华盛顿月刊》(Washington Monthly)发布的排名则是专门叫板US News。华盛顿月刊认为US News发布的排名偏向那些富有的、享有特权的私立精英大学,并没有真正从为社会创造价值的角度来评定学校。
从算法来看,华盛顿月刊的排名主要考虑社会流动性、研究水平以及公共服务三大方面。
| Rank | Name |
| 1 | Stanford University (CA) |
| 2 | Harvard University (MA) |
| 3 | MA Institute of Technology (MA) |
| 4 | Yale University (CT) |
| 5 | Duke University (NC) |
| 6 | University of Pennsylvania (PA) |
| 7 | University of California–San Diego (CA)* |
| 8 | Princeton University (NJ) |
| 9 | Georgetown University (DC) |
| 10 | Texas A&M University–College Station (TX)* |
| 11 | University of California–Davis (CA)* |
| 12 | University of California–Los Angeles (CA)* |
| 13 | Columbia Univ. in the City of NY (NY) |
| 14 | Utah State University (UT)* |
| 15 | Brigham Young University (UT) |
| 16 | University of Florida (FL)* |
| 17 | University of IL–Urbana-Champaign (IL)* |
| 18 | University of California–Irvine (CA)* |
| 19 | University of Washington–Seattle (WA)* |
| 20 | University of California–Berkeley (CA)* |
| 21 | University of CA–Santa Barbara (CA)* |
| 22 | University of NC–Chapel Hill (NC)* |
| 23 | University of Wisconsin–Madison (WI)* |
| 24 | CA State University–Fresno (CA)* |
| 25 | Cornell University (NY) |
| 26 | University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (MI)* |
| 27 | University of California–Riverside (CA)* |
| 28 | Brown University (RI) |
| 29 | Washington State University (WA)* |
| 30 | University of Notre Dame (IN) |
| 31 | University of Illinois at Chicago (IL)* |
| 32 | Northwestern University (IL) |
| 33 | Syracuse University (NY) |
| 34 | Dartmouth College (NH) |
| 35 | Mary Baldwin University (VA) |
| 36 | SUNY at Albany (NY)* |
| 37 | University of Chicago (IL) |
| 38 | Michigan State University (MI)* |
| 39 | Rutgers University–Newark (NJ)* |
| 40 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick (NJ)* |
| 41 | Purdue University–Main (IN)* |
| 42 | VA Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ. (VA)* |
| 43 | University of Rochester (NY) |
| 44 | Vanderbilt University (TN) |
| 45 | University of MD–College Park (MD)* |
| 46 | Arizona State University (AZ)* |
| 47 | Indiana University–Bloomington (IN)* |
| 48 | Georgia Institute of Technology–Main (GA)* |
| 49 | Augusta University (GA)* |
| 50 | Tufts University (MA) |
| 51 | George Mason University (VA)* |