Report: Brown 20th best in U.S. college rankings

BROWN UNIVERSITY TIED for ninth place, along with Columbia University and Cornell University, for resources, in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Ranking released this week. / COURTESY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
BROWN UNIVERSITY TIED for ninth place, along with Columbia University and Cornell University, for resources, in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Ranking released this week. / COURTESY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

PROVIDENCE – Brown University ranked 20th best in the nation in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings.
Stanford University in California took the top spot, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University in New York.
It said Brown University was the lowest-ranked Ivy League school partly due to slightly weaker outcomes than its peers, placing No. 28 in that category. However, it cracked the top 10 for resources, tying for ninth with Columbia University and Cornell University in New York based on academic spending, student-faculty ratios and research output.
The rankings, released this week, are based on 15 factors in four categories: Forty percent of each school’s overall score comes from student outcomes, including how they fare after leaving campus, 30 percent from the school’s resources, 20 percent from how well it engages its students and 10 percent from the learning environment, or diversity.
The rankings also take into account results from a survey of 100,000 college students that asked about their experience with their professors, and whether they would recommend their school to others, among other questions. Those answers mostly determined each school’s engagement score.
Private colleges were more common in the higher ranks, mostly because of public schools’ spending restraints, the report said.
Other Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts colleges and universities also made the list:

  • Rhode Island School of Design ranked No. 105
  • Wheaton College, in Norton, Mass., ranked No. 166
  • Stonehill College, in Easton, Mass., ranked No. 172
  • Bryant University, No. 192
  • Providence College, No. 235
  • Salve Regina, No. 453
  • Roger Williams University, No. 453
  • University of Rhode Island landed in the category of colleges ranking between No. 501 and No. 600
  • Johnson & Wales University in Providence was in the category of colleges ranking between No. 601 and No. 800
  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth also ranked between No. 601 and No. 800
  • Rhode Island College ranked greater than No. 800 on the list

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