Universities’ Value-Added Score
Ivy League |
2018 U.S. News Ranking |
Value-Added Score (100 = Most Value Added) |
Harvard |
2 |
100 |
Columbia |
5 |
99 |
Princeton |
1 |
98 |
Penn |
8 |
97 |
Cornell |
14 |
96 |
Dartmouth |
11 |
90 |
Yale |
3 |
88 |
Brown |
14 |
74 |
Other Top 30 National Universities |
2018 U.S. News Ranking |
Value-Added Score (100 = Most Value Added) |
Duke |
9 |
99 |
Georgetown |
20 |
99 |
MIT |
5 |
98 |
Carnegie Mellon |
25 |
97 |
Cal Tech |
10 |
96 |
Notre Dame |
18 |
96 |
Stanford |
5 |
96 |
Johns Hopkins |
11 |
93 |
Vanderbilt |
14 |
93 |
Wake Forest |
27 |
92 |
USC |
21 |
90 |
Chicago |
3 |
89 |
Northwestern |
11 |
82 |
Emory |
21 |
76 |
NYU |
30 |
66 |
Rice |
14 |
54 |
Little Ivies |
2018 U.S. News Ranking |
Value-Added Score (100 = Most Value Added) |
Tufts |
28 (National) |
96 |
Hamilton |
18 |
88 |
Bates |
23 |
77 |
Connecticut College |
46 |
71 |
Trinity |
44 |
69 |
Williams |
1 |
68 |
Bowdoin |
3 |
67 |
Middlebury |
6 |
67 |
Amherst |
2 |
61 |
Colby |
12 |
54 |
Wesleyan |
21 |
47 |
Other Top 30 Liberal Arts Colleges |
2018 U.S. News Ranking |
Value-Added Score (100 = Most Value Added) |
Washington and Lee University |
10 |
99 |
Harvey Mudd College |
12 |
95 |
Colgate University |
12 |
93 |
Davidson College |
10 |
91 |
University of Richmond |
23 |
83 |
Wellesley |
3 |
81 |
Barnard |
26 |
74 |
Haverford College |
18 |
63 |
Macalester |
26 |
44 |
Grinnell College |
18 |
43 |
Scripps |
26 |
37 |
Smith College |
12 |
37 |
Carleton College |
8 |
35 |
Kenyon College |
26 |
24 |
Swarthmore |
3 |
19 |
Pomona |
6 |
15 |
Vassar College |
12 |
15 |
Colorado College |
23 |
14 |
Oberlin College |
26 |
8 |
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United States Air Force Academy |
26 |
No Score |
United States Military Academy |
12 |
No Score |
United States Naval Academy |
21 |
No Score |
Claremont McKenna |
8 |
No Score |
Public Ivies |
2018 U.S. News Ranking |
Value-Added Score (100 = Most Value Added) |
UVA |
25 |
91 |
Michigan |
28 |
82 |
UNC |
30 |
79 |
UC Berkeley |
21 |
77 |
UCLA |
21 |
76 |
Source: Jonathan Rothwell, “Using Earnings Data to Rank Colleges: A Value-Added Approach Updated with College Scorecard Data,” October 29, 2015, https://www.brookings.edu/research/using-earnings-data-to-rank-colleges-a-value-added-approach-updated-with-college-scorecard-data/. The Brookings Institution identified how much the university’s alumni actually made approximately six years after graduation. It then estimated how much one would expect these students to earn given, among other things, the students’ characteristics (such as family income and SAT scores) and the type of institution (such as curriculum value, STEM orientation, graduation rates, and faculty salaries). Using a scale from 1 to 100, with 100 indicating the highest centile, or top 1 percent of four-year colleges, the study assigned a score for each four-year college. (Basically, the higher the score, the more value the university adds.)