University of Washington (Seattle) is ranked No. i on Sierra magazine's 5th annual ranking of the nation's meridian "Coolest Schools" (2011), followed yesteryear Green Mountain College (Poultney) inward instant house nationally too University of California San Diego inward tertiary house nationally. The magazine's rankings considered an institution's efficiency, liberate energy supply, food, academics, transportation, purchasing, waste materials management, administration, fiscal investments too other initiatives.
The University of California, San Diego jumped to tertiary from 15th final twelvemonth inward the rankings offered yesteryear Sierra Magazine. The University was recognized for environmental practices, greenish initiatives too its caliber of sustainability-oriented education. The ranking noted the high utilization of populace transit too other communal shipping initiatives at UC San Diego.
Western Washington University is ranked 14th inward the nation, ahead of such schools every bit UCLA, the University of Connecticut, Cornell University, too the University of Maryland. Western's ascension into the Top twenty (from 48th final year) was fueled yesteryear a host of initiatives on campus, such every bit existence the kickoff academy inward the acre to bring its students impose a green-energy fee to pay for it becoming 100 % powered yesteryear renewable energy. Western buys to a greater extent than renewable liberate energy credits than whatever other academy inward Washington, Oregon, or Idaho.
Sierra magazine's meridian 10 schools of 2011 are:
1. University of Washington
2. Green Mountain College
3. University of California San Diego
4. Warren Wilson College
5. Stanford University
6. University of California, Irvine
7. University of California, Santa Cruz
8. University of California, Davis
9. Evergreen State College
10. Middlebury College
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