<p>I have lived in the Northwest all my life- & I have never heard of Corban College.</p>
<p>I find it curious that at least half the schools are strongly Christian/Catholic, in an area that is also typically described as " unchurched".
But for those who are looking for such- it could be worth looking at.
Seattle</a> Metropolitan Magazine » October 2008</p>
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- Whitman College 2. University of Portland
- Reed College 4. Gonzaga University
- Willamette University 6. Multnomah University 7. Pacific Lutheran University 8. University of Washington
- Whitworth University
- Seattle University 11. Walla Walla University
- Western Washington University
- University of Puget Sound
- Lewis and Clark College 15. University of Oregon
- Seattle Pacific University 17. Oregon Institute of Technology
- Corban College
- Central Washington University
- Northwest Christian University
- George Fox University
- Warner Pacific College 23. Oregon State University
- Evergreen State College
- Linfield College
- Pacific University 27. Washington State University
- Washington State University - Vancouver
- Eastern Washington University
- Western Oregon University 31. Northwest University
- Washington State University - Tri-Cities 33. University of Washington - Bothell
- Portland State University
- University of Washington - Tacoma
- Southern Oregon University
- St. Martins University
- Eastern Oregon University
- Cornish College of the Arts
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<p>Here is an overview of their methodology.
*So when ranking the top 39 schools in the Northwest, we focused on the qualities that, taken together, have an effect on not only the college experience but everything that comes after it: How involved in the community are the students? How likely are they to give to their alma mater After graduating? (and by extension, how much did they like their alma mater?) how happy are they With the education they got and where it took them in life?</p>
<p>Yes, we factored in numbers that favor highfalutin bastions of book learnin, too, but this list Is for those who are more interested in how the whole package adds up (whether prospective students, anxious parents of the same, or proud alums) than just a diploma from a prestigious institution.</p>
<p>We ranked our colleges according to eight variables, giving double weight to sophomore retention rates as reported by the schools, student satisfaction with academics as measured by the survey web site student review/.com, and overall scores from U.S. News Best Colleges 2009″ report.</p>
<p>Average SAT and GPA scores of entering freshmen, percentages of work-study funds going to community service, Student satisfaction ratings of campus social life (from student review .com), and alumni giving rates all received single weighting.
In order to ensure that each variable, respective of its assigned weight, contributed evenly to our final average scores, we adjusted all data sets to have a mean of two and a standard deviation of two [following a four-point scale]. though all efforts were made to fill out each data set as completely as possible, some schools do not track or were occasionally unable to disclose some figures.*</p>