The Philadelphia Inquirer: Survey grades colleges on public service.
Nobody would argue that Bryn Mawr College and Pennsylvania State University are both highly regarded schools with strong academic traditions. But better than Harvard, than Penn, than Swarthmore?
Apparently so, if the oft-asked question “What are the nation’s best colleges?” is tweaked into “What colleges are best for the nation?”
At least that’s the conclusion of the editors of Washington Monthly, who this week released their second annual guide to the nation’s higher-education institutions, ranking them not on academic excellence but on their contributions to research, public service and social mobility.
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