Rating colleges and universities by value-added

A new Brookings study by Rothwell and Kulkarni attempts to do just that.  The list of ratings for two-year institutions puts NHTI’s-Concord Community College at the top, followed by a large number of institutions you mostly haven’t heard of.  For four-year institutions the list starts with:

1. Caltech

2. Colgate

3. MIT

4. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,

with other surprises to follow.  The Colorado School of Mines does better than Princeton, for instance.  Here is the report itself, here is a story on the report.  I am finding the web site for the rankings is still a little glitchy, let’s hope they fix that soon, or maybe it is just the current volume of traffic.