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MC named 2021 top baccalaureate college by Washington Monthly

Aug. 30, 2021

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In its annual College Guide and Rankings, Washington Monthly ranked Maryville College No. 12 in its list of “2021 Bachelor’s Colleges.” The College also was listed among the top 50 colleges in the South for “Best Bang for the Buck.”

The College Guide is included in the September/October 2021 issue of Washington Monthly, a bimonthly nonprofit magazine that covers United States politics and government.

“As it has since 2005, Washington Monthly ranks colleges and universities on three broad criteria: the degree to which they recruit and graduate students of modest means (with Pell Grants as the main data point), produce the scholarship and scholars that drive economic growth and human flourishing (with federal research dollars a central

measure), and encourage students to be active citizens (with national and community service participation a key variable),” according to the description of this year’s rankings. “The Monthly’s rankings …  are crafted to push institutions of higher learning to be engines of upward mobility, scientific progress, and democratic participation.”

In its list of bachelor’s colleges, the publication ranks baccalaureate colleges – four-year institutions that award almost exclusively bachelor’s degrees – based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: social mobility, research and promoting public service. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, N.Y. topped the list of 244 schools. In the category of “service rank,” Maryville College is ranked first out of the 244 bachelor’s colleges on the list.

Maryville College was listed among the top 50 colleges in the South for the publication’s “Best Bang for the Buck” list – a list of schools ranked according to how well they help non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices. The ranking is “laser focused on showing which colleges do a good job promoting social mobility – and which don’t,” according to the website. The 250 Best Bang for the Buck colleges across each of the five regions “are primarily the unsung heroes of American higher education: colleges with strong regional reputations that serve large numbers of students from low-income families and help them graduate and succeed in the labor market.”

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Knoxville, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. Today, our 10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”