Name: 2022 College Rankings: Wealthy Private Universities Dominate, Again | WSJ
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- [Narrator] Last year, the pandemic caused one

adopt remote learning and scale down campus activities.

But you wouldn't know it from this year's

Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education Rankings report.

there was little change in the top tier schools.

- The best schools in The Wall Street Journal rankings

Its only weakness was environment where it ranked 134.

But that only counts for 10% of the rank.

fourth in resources, and 60 in engagement.

Yale and Princeton tied for the best outcomes,

and the California Institute of Technology

- [Narrator] The rankings are based on 15 factors

With so little change in the top schools,

what can we learn from this year's report

about the state of higher education amid the pandemic?

- I think the takeaway from this year's report,

is that money matters in higher education.

It takes generations to build up the kind of resources

that can insulate universities from the kind

and all the costs that that's taken into place.

That disruption has hurt schools lower down

that have less money, that are tuition dependent

but they're much less likely to have any kind

- [Narrator] The report also measures the best value

is by dividing each institution's overall score

by its net price, by what students are actually paying.

And by this measure, the number one school

the flagship of the public city universities,

which is a private liberal arts school in Kentucky

- [Narrator] Only two of the schools ranked

are private universities: Berea and Stanford University.

Value aside, private universities dominate the rankings.

- [Doug] It's not until number 24 on our list

that you reach the University of Michigan

Following that, you get the University of California,

So the wealthiest private schools in the country

- [Narrator] The rankings reflect a growing gap

in price between public and private intuitions.

In a lot of cases, the tuition does not begin

to cover the actual cost of educating a student.

and the different opportunities that a student has,

then that is gonna help out the rankings,

- [Narrator] A subset of the rankings focuses

- [Doug] These rankings are led by La Sierra University,

which is a small Seventh Day Adventist school

Rutgers University in New Jersey comes in second

Followed by the Cal State University of Northridge,

- [Narrator] The Wall Street Journal's report

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