{"id":40802290102,"date":"2025-08-28T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802290102"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:04:02","slug":"monmouth-university-featured-in-washington-monthlys-2025-guide-and-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/monmouth-university-featured-in-washington-monthlys-2025-guide-and-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmouth University Featured in Washington Monthly’s 2025 Guide and Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monmouth University was recently featured in Washington Monthly\u2019s annual college guide and rankings, which evaluates 1,421 colleges on access, affordability, outcomes, and service. Monmouth appears on the 2025 College Rankings: Master\u2019s University list as well as the 2025 Best Bang for the Buck Colleges: Northeast list. This year marks Monmouth\u2019s ninth appearance on the Master\u2019s University list, and the fifth year on the Best Bang for the Buck list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington Monthly’s Best Bang for the Buck Colleges list isolates the access, affordability, and outcomes metrics from the main rankings, \u201cevaluating colleges by how well they provide access to nonwealthy students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Washington Monthly, the methodology behind their main rankings changed substantially for 2025. \u201cInstead of using three equally weighted metrics (social mobility, research, and service) for all colleges and universities … Our main rankings now have four equally weighted portions: access, affordability, outcomes, and community and national service.\u201d As part of the overhaul, Washington Monthly created a separate research ranking for the 139 universities that averaged more than $100 million in research expenditures over the past three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Monthly has also introduced a new list that combines all four-year colleges and universities into a single master list of more than 1,400 institutions, the Best Colleges for Your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars<\/a>. According to the editors, \u201cThis allows you to see how any college or university\u2014public or private, big or small, research or teaching\u2014stacks up against all the others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

View the full rankings for the 2025 College Rankings: Master\u2019s University<\/a> list and the 2025 Best Bang for the Buck Colleges: Northeast<\/a> list, and explore the changes to Washington Monthly\u2019s full methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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