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Ranking Wellesley College and Babson

By bbrown | Published: August 22, 2008

The annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings are out and the local colleges fared well as usual (methodology here). The magazine put Wellesley College at #4 among liberal arts schools behind only Amherst, Williams and Swarthmore (Wellesley’s tuition and fees are listed as $36,640).  Babson grabbed honors as the top entrepreneurial undergrad [...]

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The Sox vs. Yanks of women-only colleges

By bbrown | Published: August 11, 2008

Newsweek cites Wellesley vs. Smith as one of the top 12 college rivalries. The article points out Smith’s efforts to target low-income students, though says Wellesley is no slouch on that front either. Smith also is said to have a good nightlife off campus: Café-crawling Smith students say of their school, “The coffee is strong [...]

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Wellesley teachers know a thing or two about economics

By bbrown | Published: August 7, 2008

We noticed the Boston Globe ran a rather out-of-the-blue list of Massachusetts teacher salaries on its website today, so we checked out the numbers ourselves at the State Department of Education website  to see where Wellesley ranked. As is often the case with government numbers, the most recent ones are a tad old (2006-2007), but [...]

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