Alabama A&M University received a strong rating from a magazine whose rankings tout themselves are being more practical and useful to society than more conventional rankings.
Washington Monthly rated Alabama A&M at No. 24 nationally among Master’s Universities.
According to the magazine, the rankings build upon the premise, “What are colleges doing for the country?”
“After all, higher education matters to more than just the people who attend,” the magazine writes. “We all benefit when university researchers produce groundbreaking research in science, medicine, and technology.
“We’re all affected by the productivity of our knowledge workers and the integrity of our college-educated leaders. And we all pay for it through hundreds of billions of dollars in public subsidies to higher education, costs that are rapidly increasing in response to tuition increases that never seem to end.”
A key element in a school’s evaluation is in social mobility, which the magazine defines as giving “colleges credit for enrolling many low-income students and helping them earn degrees.”
According to Alabama A&M, the school is the highest-ranked among Historically Black Colleges and Universities for social mobility. read more…
