OLYMPIA — A college in Olympia earned praise from a national magazine for “the extraordinary outcomes it provides to a student body of everyday means.”

The Evergreen State College placed in the top 15% in Washington Monthly’s 2025 ranking of Best Colleges for Your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars in the U.S.

It also got a shout-out as a best-in-class college.

Washington Monthly’s ranking is based in part on how much the schools “help ordinary middle- and working-class students get ahead,” according to the magazine, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

The ranking also measures how much the schools “encourage democratic participation and service to the country, and produce the scholars and scholarship that drive economic growth and human flourishing,” the magazine said. Why does The Ever

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