{"id":40802276170,"date":"2023-08-30T18:10:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T22:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802276170"},"modified":"2023-09-06T08:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:55:18","slug":"monmouth-university-climbs-26-spots-on-washington-monthlys-best-bang-for-the-buck-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/monmouth-university-climbs-26-spots-on-washington-monthlys-best-bang-for-the-buck-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmouth University Climbs 26 Spots on Washington Monthly’s Best Bang for the Buck Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monmouth University was recently featured in Washington Monthly\u2019s annual college guide, which ranks colleges and universities based on \u201cwhat they do for our country.\u201d Monmouth appears on the 2023 College Rankings: Master\u2019s Universities list and the 2023 Best Bang for the Buck Colleges: Northeast list. This year, Monmouth climbed 26 spots on the Best Bang for the Buck list and ranked 19 points higher on the index that measures an institution\u2019s social mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington Monthly ranks its 2023 master\u2019s universities by their contribution to the greater good in three categories: social mobility, research, and community and national service. The categories are weighted equally so that \u201ctop-ranked colleges needed to be excellent across the full breadth of our measures, rather than excelling in just one measure.\u201d The publication determines scores by considering factors such as graduation, retention, Pell Grant eligibility, overall affordability, post-college outcomes, research opportunities, community service, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is gratifying to see third-party recognition of the progress we have made in serving first generation and Pell Grant-eligible students,\u201d said Monmouth University President Patrick F. Leahy. \u201cWe have placed expanded access to a private education at the center of our strategic plan\u2014in lockstep with our ambition for academic excellence\u2014which is also reflected in the incoming Class of 2027. More than fifty percent of our first-year students are first generation and\/or Pell Grant-eligible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2023 Best Bang for the Buck Colleges: Northeast list ranks schools according to how well the institution \u201chelp[s] non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices\u201d by taking a detailed look at the social mobility data component of the overall ranking. This marks Monmouth\u2019s seventh appearance on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Monthly analysis is increasingly being seen as the future of college rankings. \u201cIt\u2019s changed the conversation,\u201d said U.S. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal, \u201cand it\u2019s shown college leaders that there is more than one set of values that they can use to guide their institutions.” View the full rankings for the 2023 College Rankings: Master\u2019s Universities<\/a> list and the 2023 Best Bang for the Buck Colleges: Northeast<\/a> list, and explore Washington Monthly\u2019s full methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monmouth also ranked 19 points higher on the index that measures an institution\u2019s social mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802274738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,417,414,444,191,83],"tags":[1201],"person":[621],"audience":[14,11,29,1961],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802276170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-excellence","category-awards-publications-research","category-campus-life","category-monmouth-now","category-personalized-education","category-president","tag-president","person-patrick-leahy","audience-alumni","audience-current-student","audience-media","audience-parent"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802276170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802276170"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802276170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802276250,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802276170\/revisions\/40802276250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802274738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802276170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802276170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802276170"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802276170"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802276170"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802276170"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802276170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}