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Public-Good Rankings Include Mississippi Schools

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Four Mississippi schools appeared on rankings published by Washington Monthly magazines.

Washington Monthly magazine has published college rankings based on their contribution to the public good. The listings include several Mississippi universities and colleges, and are based on three broad categories: social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).

In the "national," public universities list, Jackson State University ranked No. 22 on the list, on par with Ivy League Yale University, and ahead of such esteemed schools such as Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, Princeton University in New Jersey, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Leading that list are four California schools: the University of California at Berkeley, San Diego and Los Angeles, and Stanford University.

A second list of liberal arts colleges ranked Mississippi's Tougaloo College, Rust College and Millsaps College at 42, 57 and 159, respectively.

To see the complete listings and more information on the categories, go to the Washington Monthly Web site.

Previous Comments

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152038
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Go JSU! Go Tougaloo! Go Rust! Go Millsaps! Nice to get positive recognition for education in our state.

Author
J.T.
Date
2009-09-18T10:50:20-06:00
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152040
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Baquan2000, I have given up of trying to even read the CL and to blog is a total disaster. The paper is so bias and the conservative views hinge on racism. It also attracts a whole host of people who make you go, "hummmmmmmmm." Great press for our MS schools. Congratulations! Thank you JFP.

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justjess
Date
2009-09-18T11:00:58-06:00
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152052
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Credit where it's due: MSU, USM, and Ole Miss also make the list, at 76, 110, and 133 respectively. Surely there are more public universities in the U.S. than just these. How did they choose the schools they did, I wonder?

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Ricky Kidd
Date
2009-09-18T12:05:28-06:00
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152054
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From the above: The listings include several Mississippi universities and colleges, and are based on three broad categories: social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).

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DonnaLadd
Date
2009-09-18T12:13:33-06:00
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152061
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Marvelous MS universities. Go MSU, USM and Ole Miss. So, duh, MS is suppose to trail in education??

Author
J.T.
Date
2009-09-18T12:46:39-06:00

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