According to Washington Monthly's new college rankings, Texas A&M University is the second-best institution in the country. The next highest ranked school from Texas? The University of Texas at El Paso, coming in 12th place.

What is obvious from the list is that the magazine uses a dramatically different methodology from the more familiar U.S. News & World Report list, which ranks Harvard University first. In Washington Monthly, Harvard is ranked 11th and the University of California, San Diego is first. UTEP, meanwhile, doesn't make the U.S. News list and A&M is 58th.

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