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Public Service Focus Puts Harvey Mudd at No. 2 in Washington Monthly College Rankings

无忧视频 ranked No. 2 among liberal arts colleges in Washington Monthly鈥檚 2016 College Rankings, a survey of U.S. institutions that aims to measure contribution to the public good.

鈥淲e gathered the best available data and ranked colleges not on what they did for themselves, but on what they did for their country,鈥� wrote Kevin Carey, director of the Education Policy Program at think tank New America and guest editor of the college guide. 鈥淥ur method had three pillars: social mobility, research and service. Colleges that enrolled many low-income students and helped them graduate did well on our rankings, regardless of how famous they were. So did universities producing the next generation of scientists and PhDs, and those that built an ethos of public obligation by sending graduates into service.鈥�

The survey鈥檚 methodology for liberal arts colleges included factors such as the number of students participating in community service, service hours performed and academic courses that incorporate service; the percentage of alumni who go on to get PhDs; and comparisons between the actual graduation rate and predicted graduation rate鈥攁s a measure of how well the school performs as an engine of social mobility.

Harvey Mudd rates highly in these and many other survey factors with its emphasis on community engagement, integration of community service into the curriculum, support of student service organizations, outreach programs in local schools and mission to educate socially responsible leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The College ranks

Washington Monthly also rated colleges in a category called 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Best Bang for the Buck Colleges.鈥� The ranking, divided into U.S. regions, lists colleges and universities that 鈥渉elp non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices.鈥� Harvey Mudd ranked No. 2 on the list of Best Bang for the Buck, Western Colleges.

Admission to Harvey Mudd is need-blind for U.S. applicants, and the College meets 100 percent of demonstrated financial need. Seventy-five percent of Mudd students received financial aid during the 2015鈥�2016 academic year.