College Rankings by "Contributions to Society"

Washington Monthly has released its annual college rankings, "which rate schools not based on crude and easily-manipulated measures of money and prestige, like certain other magazines do, but rather on their contributions to society."  The methodology is:

Community Service (33.3%)

• % of Alumni in Peace Corps
• % of Students in Army/Navy ROTC
• % of Work-Study Grants Spent on Community Service Projects

Research (33.3%)

• Research Expenditures
• % of Students Earning Ph.Ds
• Number of Science & Engineering Ph.Ds Awarded
• % of Faculty Receiving Prestigious Awards
• % of Faculty in National Academies

Social Mobility (33.3%)

• % of Students Receiving Pell Grants
• Actual Graduation Rate v. Predicted Graduation Rate

Here are the Top 25 National Universities according to Washington Monthly (out of 258 schools), along with the schools' corresponding U.S. News rank:

Wash. Monthly Rank	National Universities	U.S. News Rank
1	UC-Berkeley	21
2	UC-San Diego	35
3	UCLA	24
4	Stanford	4
5	Texas A&M	61
6	South Carolina State	Tier 3
7	Penn State	47
8	William & Mary	33
9	Texas	47
10	UC-Davis	42
11	Harvard	1
12	MIT	4
13	Chicago	8
14	U. Washington	42
15	Case Western	41
16	UC-Riverside	96
17	Cornell	15
18	Michigan	27
19	Notre Dame	20
20	Ohio State	53
21	UC-Santa Barbara	42
22	Jackson State	Tier 4
23	Yale	1
24	Illinois	39
25	Johns Hopkins	14

Top 10 National Universities according to U.S. News that fare poorly in the Washington Monthly rankings are Princeton (#1 in U.S. News, #28 in Washington Monthly), Cal-Tech (#4, #29), Penn (#4, #59), Columbia (#8, #42), and Duke (#10, #33).

Here are the Top 25 Liberal Arts Colleges according to Washington Monthly (out of 253 schools), along with the schools' corresponding U.S. News rank:

Wash. Monthly Rank	Liberal Arts Colleges	U.S. News Rank
1	Amherst	2
2	Mt. Holyoke	25
3	Williams	1
4	Harvey Mudd	14
5	Haverford	10
6	Smith	18
7	Bryn Mawr	25
8	Swarthmore	3
9	Carleton	8
10	Wellesley	4
11	Wesleyan	13
12	Berea	Tier 3
13	Whitman	36
14	Morehouse	Tier 3
15	Wheaton	56
16	Reed	49
17	Oberlin	22
18	St. John’s	27
19	Macalester	29
20	Grinnell	14
21	Spelman	68
22	Bowdoin	6
23	Middlebury	4
24	Barnard	30
25	Vassar	11

Top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges according to U.S. News that fare poorly in the Washington Monthly rankings are Pomona (#6 in U.S. News, #31 in Washington Monthly) and Davidson (#8, #36).

(Hat Tip: Francine Lipman.)