Washington Monthly magazine has published college rankings based on their contribution to the public good. The listings include several Mississippi universities and colleges, and are based on three broad categories: social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).
In the "national," public universities list, Jackson State University ranked No. 22 on the list, on par with Ivy League Yale University, and ahead of such esteemed schools such as Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, Princeton University in New Jersey, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Leading that list are four California schools: the University of California at Berkeley, San Diego and Los Angeles, and Stanford University.
A second list of liberal arts colleges ranked Mississippi's Tougaloo College, Rust College and Millsaps College at 42, 57 and 159, respectively.
To see the complete listings and more information on the categories, go to the Washington Monthly Web site.
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