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    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Jan 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    Brag Sheet: What UC is What You Get

    The Los Angeles Times: "Every college has its brag sheet. But the University of California has taken it to a whole new level with a...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Dec 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    Which College Cities Are Tops?

    Pennlive: "A Pennsylvanian city has been named as one of the top college places in the U.S. However, it’s not the home of Penn State...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Oct 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    Top 25: Alumni Rate their Alma Maters

    Forbes: "Have you ever wondered what the top colleges and universities would look like if they were ranked based on alumni ratings?...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Sep 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    Survey Ranks Colleges for 'Free Speech'

    Fire: "The Ivy League offers students sterling credentials, but is miserly when it comes to offering them free speech — try the...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Feb 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    By State: Which College is Toughest?

    USA Today: "24/7 Wall St. reviewed admissions data across thousands of four-year, degree-granting institutions from the National Center...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Dec 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    Which Colleges Are Most Underrated?

    Patch: "The University of Mary Washington lacks huge brand recognition but employs a roster of top-notch professors and offers a...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Dec 18, 2019
    • 1 min

    The College Cost v. Quality Conundrum

    Forbes: "It turns out the cost of a college does not predict higher alumni ratings about the quality of their education," according to a...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Nov 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Guess Who? 10 Most Innovative Colleges

    Reuters: "For the fifth year running, Stanford University tops Reuters’ ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Mar 4, 2019
    • 2 min

    Forbes Ranks Schools For International Students

    Forbes: “Though America still hosts over a million foreign learners, first-time international undergraduates in the U.S. sank 6.6% in...
    Who’s The Most Selective Of Them All?
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Jan 18, 2019
    • 1 min

    Who’s The Most Selective Of Them All?

    Not surprising, the top five are: Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Yale and Princeton. You can review the complete list here.
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Jan 9, 2019
    • 2 min

    UMass: ‘ZooMass’ No More?

    The Boston Globe: “In boosting its academic profile, UMass is following the path previously taken by several local private colleges,...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Dec 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    Which ‘College Towns’ Are Best?

    Mlive: “The personal finance website Wallethub has once again named the home of the University of Michigan the best small college town in...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Dec 5, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Top 10 ‘Most Underrated’ Colleges

    Boston.com: “CollegeVine, a Cambridge-based college guidance company, recently examined the ‘most underrated’ colleges in the United...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Oct 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    Stanford Study Says Rankings Don’t Matter

    Inside Higher Ed: “A new study from researchers at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education examines all of the evidence about...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Sep 26, 2018
    • 1 min

    Late & Great: Mel Elfin

    The New York Times: “Mel Elfin, a longtime Washington bureau chief for Newsweek who moved to the rival U.S. News & World Report in 1986...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Sep 13, 2017
    • 1 min

    US News Announces 2018 Rankings

    US News: “Princeton University is No. 1 for Best National Universities for the seventh year in a row. For the 15th consecutive year,...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Sep 6, 2017
    • 1 min

    UK Universities Top Global Rankings

    The Wall Street Journal: “Oxford and Cambridge, the intellectual one-two punch of the U.K., took the first and second spots in the 2018...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Oct 21, 2016
    • 1 min

    Ranking the Return on Your College Investment

    The New York Times: “Earnings data are finding their way into a proliferating number of mainstream college rankings, shifting the...

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