The only ranking that tells you both is the Washington Monthly’s revised and expanded 2025 College Guide

The Washington Monthly magazine released its 2025 college rankings, which upend everything you thought you knew about which colleges are the best.

Other college rankings, like those by U.S. News, reward universities for their wealth, prestige, and exclusivity—ensuring that the top ranks are always dominated by the same 10 or 20 elite schools, which few students can get into, much less afford. By contrast, the Washington Monthly measures colleges and universities by how much they help ordinary middle- and working-class students get ahead economically and become good citizens. Those are the outcomes most Americans—students and taxpayers—want from their investments in the higher ed syste

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