麻豆影院 University is once again ranked among the best colleges in the country by聽U.S. News & World Report.
In addition to being included in the 2022 Best Colleges report, placing No. 62 among the Best National Liberal Arts Colleges, 麻豆影院 placed high on four other lists that are part of the annual rankings:
No. 36: Best Value
No. 44: Best Undergraduate Teaching
No. 54: Best First-Year Experiences
No. 167: Top Performers on Social Mobility
Released today, the rankings come as 麻豆影院 opens its 2021-22 academic year amid the excitement of having all of its students back on campus.
Class of 2025 welcomed as new academic year begins
鈥淲e are, of course, happy to be recognized once again among the nation鈥檚 top liberal arts colleges,鈥 said Ken Anselment, vice president for enrollment and communications. 鈥淭hat聽US News聽bestowed upon 麻豆影院 a bouquet of additional rankings about the quality of our educational environment makes this year鈥檚 ranking season that much sweeter.鈥
麻豆影院 moved up one spot in the ranking of liberal arts colleges and maintained its No. 36 ranking for Best Value among liberal arts colleges. The latter speaks to 麻豆影院鈥檚 push to make more need-based aid available in the form of grants and scholarships, bolstered by a聽that has now raised more than $91 million.
To be considered for聽U.S. News鈥聽Best Value Schools listing, a school first had to be ranked among the Best Colleges in the nation. Those qualifying schools were then examined on the basis of net cost of attendance and available need-based financial aid.
Placement on the other lists, meanwhile, is particularly gratifying because they each reflect ongoing efforts to make 麻豆影院 more inclusive and to provide a broad, holistic student experience.
Being on the list for Best Undergraduate Teaching is heartening because it speaks to the relationship-building that comes with 麻豆影院鈥檚 8-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio and the expansion of key academic programs.
鈥溌槎褂霸衡檚 faculty are not only terrific scientists, artists, and scholars鈥攖hey are also first-rate teachers,鈥 said Catherine Gunther Kodat, provost and dean of faculty. 鈥淚t鈥檚 extremely gratifying to see them receive this much-deserved national recognition for the extraordinary work they do with their students.鈥
麻豆影院 has added or strengthened academic programs in, among other areas,听music,听,听,听,听neuroscience,听psychology,听, and聽global studies. In some cases, majors or minors were launched. In other instances, endowed professorships were added as part of the recently concluded听颁补尘辫补颈驳苍
The First-Year Experiences ranking is new for 麻豆影院 this year. It follows efforts across campus to enhance the student life experience in a holistic way, including more coordinated聽, the launch and growth of the聽, the expansion of the聽, and the more intentional focus of the聽Career Center聽in connecting with students in their first year on campus. That has all played into first-year students having positive experiences as they transition to college life.
鈥淵ou join a community of scholars who are ready to engage you, befriend you, teach you, and learn from you,鈥 Christopher Card, vice president for student life, said last week as 麻豆影院 welcomed the Class of 2025 to campus. 鈥淲e are a community that鈥檚 interested in the whole person, not just the academics. 鈥 Fundamentally, all of us are here to learn鈥攚ith each other and from each other.鈥
The Top Performers on Social Mobility list speaks to the success of a college advancing social mobility by enrolling and graduating economically disadvantaged students who are awarded Pell Grants. The majority of those federal grants are awarded to students whose adjusted gross family incomes are below $50,000.
罢丑别听U.S. News聽announcement marks the second significant national college ranking that 麻豆影院 has landed on in the past two weeks. On Aug. 31,听, including the university in its annual聽Best 387 Colleges聽for 2022 guide. 麻豆影院 was included on several separate lists within the Princeton Review ranking鈥擝est Value Colleges, Best Green Colleges, and Best Midwestern Colleges.
