Five Worcester campuses among WSJ's top 400
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Five colleges in Worcester have again made an annual ranking of the best colleges by The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education.
The new rankings released Thursday have Worcester Polytechnic Institute at 119th and College of the Holy Cross at 125th. Clark University is 203rd.
The ranking system heavily considers how well a college prepares its students for career success, including average salary. It also includes student engagement, diversity, and how much colleges devote to student resources including research output and student-to-faculty ratios.
This year's rankings show a downward two-year trend for both WPI and Holy Cross. WPI was ranked 83rd in 2017 and 98th in 2018. Holy Cross was 84th, then 91st. WPI scored well for student outcomes but worse for student diversity, while Holy Cross scored well for resources devoted to students but among the worst for student diversity.
Clark, on the other hand, improved from 278th last year to 203rd. MCPHS University, which is based in Boston but has a campus in downtown Worcester, ranked 279th. Assumption College was 370th.
Massachusetts was a standout nationally, with two Cambridge schools — Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology — landing first and second, respectively. The two schools were ranked in the same order last year, too.
Among others in Massachusetts, Amherst College was 20th, Williams College was 21st, Wellesley College was 24th, Smith College was 41st, and Tufts University was 30th.
The Wall Street Journal and the Times Higher Education rankings can vary a bit from the industry's most well known annual tally from the U.S. News & World Report. In that list, colleges are divided in a way that separates WPI, with a broader course offering, from Holy Cross, which has a more liberal arts focus and is included among other liberal arts schools.
In those rankings, Holy Cross was 35th among liberal arts schools nationally, while WPI ranked 59th among more general-education colleges.
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