You read right. The righteous redistributionists at the Washington Monthly Magazine have announced their annual ranking of colleges and universities. And University of California-San Diego (UCSD) came out on top, followed by UCLA, the University of California-Berkeley, Stanford, the University of California-Riverside, Harvard, Case Western Reserve, the University of California-Davis, Jackson State University, and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Traditional academic stalwarts like the University of Chicago (25), Columbia (26), Princeton (31), Yale (39), and my alma mater of Northwestern (67) did not come remotely close to cracking the top ten.
Full story: UC-San Diego voted best college in America. Yale, Princeton not even in Top 30