UW-Madison wins high rankings from two magazines
A pair of magazines has scored the University of Wisconsin–Madison highly in separate rankings.
Washington Monthly magazine’s 2012 College Guide puts UW–Madison at No. 18, up from a 29th-place ranking last year. The only Big Ten university placing higher was the University of Michigan at No. 13.
And Reform Judaism magazine’s annual “Top 60 Schools Jews Choose” ranks UW–Madison 10th among public institutions, up from No. 11 last year. The University of Florida topped the public institutions list.
The magazine takes into account the number of Jewish students in the overall student population, the number Jewish studies courses, the presence of Jewish fraternities, sororities and events and worship opportunities for students.
The Washington Monthly ranking employs a methodology that assesses three areas.
Those areas include “social mobility,” which takes into account percentage of students receiving Pell Grants and graduation rates; research, which takes into account research expenditures and bachelor’s-to-doctorate rank, and; service, which examines several community service measures.
The Washington Monthly ranking also had a UW–Madison connection, as Robert Kelchen, a disseratator in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, served as methodologist for the magazine’s rankings this year.
“The changes to this year’s rankings to better reflect a college’s cost-effectiveness are a result of work that I am doing in my dissertation, which is why I was asked to compile the rankings for 2012,” Kelchen says.