[Vision2020] Washington best-value universities

[Kenneth Marcy]

On Saturday 05 February 2011 15:22:11 Joe Campbell wrote:
> Thanks for this information, Ken!

You're welcome. I must append to the data, with apology for omission, The 
Evergreen State College in Olympia which should have appeared in the message 
with an in-state rank of 53 and an out-of-state rank of 57. I should have used 
the web site's sorting abilities to arrange the list by state, which may have 
made Evergreen more visible initially, even without Washington in its name.

It is interesting to note how well-represented the coastal states of WA, OR, 
and CA are on the Kiplinger list compared with the more arid inland states. 
Beyond the coast one must skip over ID, MT, ND, NV, UT, WY, SD, AZ, NM, and KS 
before one encounters a south-central US cluster of CO, NE, OK, and TX on the 
list, before moving further eastward to the column of states along the west 
side of the Mississippi River, all of which are on the list.

I haven't done any spreadsheet analyses, but it appears that even with WA's 
relatively small population, it is well-committed to educational excellence 
for its residents.


Ken

 
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
> > The latest Kiplinger survey of best values in public colleges lists, for
> > students resident in-state, the University of Washington in Seattle at
> > number
> > 10, Western Washington University in Bellingham at number 56, and
> > Washington
> > State University in Pullman at number 98. For out-of-state residents, the
> > corresponding rankings are 20, 53, and 88.
> > 
> > No Idaho schools appear on the list.
> > 
> > http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges/index.php?si=1