https://www.nbcboston.com/multimedia/480834221.html
Harvard only came in second. =))
1-UMass Amherst
2-Harvard
3-Fitchburg State
4-Westfield State
5-Framingham State
6-UMass Lowell
7-Worcester State
8-Mass College of Liberal Arts
9-Salem State
10-Bridgewater State
A few schools are missing in my opinion.
Dean’s not on this?? lol
Awesome ranking.
and MIT doesn’t make the list? I cry foul.
At first I thought it was a ranking of public colleges in Massachusetts. But they did allow recognition to Harvard, albeit behind UMass Amherst, so it is an overall ranking. When I said how ridiculous this list is in another forum an NBCBoston rep gave me a real snotty response.
Lol, seems a little biased towards state schools. In order of 75th percentile SATs: Harvard, MIT, Williams, Olin, Amherst., Tufts, Wellesley, Northeastern, Boston College, Boston University. That isn’t totally accurate, but iit seems like a better place to start. Lots of top schools in MA, and Harvard is the only one on that list close to the top.
@donnaleighg Agreed. MIT should be ranked above Bridgewater State at a minimum. 
Poor Umass Dartmouth, no love lol.
No mention of Babson, WPi, Bentley etc. not to list MIT, Northeastern, Tufts, BU. is a joke, and then all the LAC type schools.
@RightCoaster UMass Amherst is giving UMass Dartmouth the students they are kicking off the Mount Ida College campus so that they can turn it into a Boston area outpost for UMass Amherst.
Now that’s love!
@TomSrOfBoston I heard Umass was thinking of taking over the Mt Ida campus?? Using it a campus closer to Boston for kids doing co-ops, internships, etc. A lady in town that works at one of the local universities heard that rumor.
@Rightcoaster it’s not a rumor, it’s a done deal.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/04/25/charlie-baker-party-betrayal-mount-ida/JTR2NDaA47PXS2QbdJP2IJ/story.html
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/04/09/purchase-mount-ida-insult-umass-boston/iWdcquCvzZDdm0AsuDaNJJ/story.html?p1=Article_Related_Box_Article_More
^^ I can’t read that, pay per view link.
What happend as I have not been following? Is Umass Amherst going to buy that school and property? That would be interesting I guess.
https://www.schools.com/online-colleges/massachusetts is the source of the rankings.
If you click on “Methodology” there, you can see the ranking criteria, which are heavily focused on cost and some aspects that may be more interesting to non-traditional students (distance education, evening classes), with limited consideration of aspects correlated with admission selectivity (graduation rate) that many other rankings emphasize.
@RightCoaster Yes, UMass Amherst is acquiring Mount Ida. They offered Mount Ida students guaranteed transfer to UMass Dartmouth. Except UMass Dartmouth does not offer many Mount Ida majors.
Well, it is an interesting take,… I think?
Someone has to shake up the establishment!
MIT is merely a technical school.
The first criteria in their rating is
Harvard doesn’t do well in this category, as well as some of the others. Given the methodology,I wouldn’t expect the usual $70k sticker price colleges to be on the top of the rankings.
No, that simply can’t be right. Enter the prestige ogre:
Harvard
MIT
Williams
Amherst
Wellesley
Smith
Tufts
Boston College
Brandeis
Boston U
Mt Holyoke
Holy Cross
Northeastern
UMass
Hampshire
WPI
Clark
Wheaton
(What a wealth of colleges in such a small state.)
@TomSrOfBoston
Tom! Who are those folks ad what makes them either experts or unbiased and reliable? Lol. A few freelance writers are named.
https://www.schools.com/about
You and I could do better. And you’d add humor.
:)>-
@RightCoaster why all the hate on Dean College? At least they’re still open!
…as determined by The Onion.