A ranking of 900 colleges and universities by a company called CollegeNet focused not on prestige, but on how much bang for your buck you get for attending the institution. Specifically, how well do various places of higher learning provide improvement on economic mobility and how affordable are these schools to families of disadvantaged financial means?
The top ten schools according to CollegeNet are nothing remotely close to those found in the Princeton Review or U.S. News and World Report's annual listings.
CollegeNet's ten are (with U.S. News and World Report's ranking as comparison):
And where do U.S. News and World Report's top five colleges and universities rank on CollegeNet's social mobility index?
I think we all kind of knew on some level that what's-its-face school...hold on, let me look it up again...uhh...CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College was where we all dreamed to go.
Ranking Graphs: CollegeNet, U.S. News, via Yahoo
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