50 Best Colleges on the West Coast
By Madison Troyer, Stacker News
On 3/6/21 at 9:00 AM EST
With thousands of colleges and universities in the United States, narrowing down the field can seem impossible for prospective students. The West Coast alone has a bevy of highly rated state schools and excellent private universities, ranging in student-body size from a few hundred to tens of thousands.
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Stacker rounded up the top 50 schools on the West Coast, based on Niche s 2021 Best Colleges in America list (updated February 2021). These institutions in Oregon, Washington, and California are ranked based on rigorous analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education; categories examined include academics, admissions, financial costs, student life, and other factors.
Yeshiva University
Visit the link above to view the final ranking order, find top schools by state, and see additional schools outside the top 50. A tighter-knit college community, personalized studies, better student-to-faculty ratios, and greater access to professors and staff these are just a few of the advantages of a smaller school, adds Macosko. Students looking for colleges and universities that offer those elements, along with superior scholarship and influential academics, will find them in our ranking.
Founded in October 2016, with funding assistance from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Influence Networks developed the InfluenceRanking Engine, the machine-learning technology behind AcademicInfluence.com s advanced rankings. The InfluenceRanking Engine scans and analyzes the web, mapping the impact of a school s thought leadership across a variety of disciplines. For further details on the unique capabilities and advantages of this high-tech ra
From a 2020 paper in the
Quarterly Journal of Economics by Raj Chetty on college admissions to Ivy League colleges (plus Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Duke). It features Chetty’s usual immense sample sizes from theoretically secret data sources (IRS, Census, testing agencies, etc.) that nobody had the chutzpah before to think that they could data mine:
Chetty et al write:
The impacts of income-neutral allocations at the most selective colleges differ from those in the broader population. At Ivy-Plus colleges, the fraction of students from the bottom quintile remains essentially unchanged under income-neutral allocations in absolute terms (rising from 3.8% to 4.4%), but the fraction of students from the middle class (the second, third, and fourth income quintiles) rises sharply, from 27.8% to 37.9%, as shown in Table VI. Figure V, Panel A shows why we see the biggest effects on the representation of the middle class by plotting the parental income distribution of high SAT/ACT (≥1300
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Beyer Blinder Belle
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Brown Jordan
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