Two local colleges have made U.S. News & World Reports’ best colleges list.
Goshen College and Grace College in Winona Lake made the annual list.
U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings are based on a number of criteria, including academic reputation, retention rates, graduation rates, faculty, selectivity in admissions, financial resources and alumni giving.
Goshen College placed in the third tier of the category of Best Liberal Arts Colleges for the seventh straight year in the 2008 U.S. News & World Report “America’s Best Colleges” ranking.
The “Liberal Arts Colleges” category, in which Goshen College is ranked with 265 other schools, is defined by the Carnegie Commission as schools emphasizing undergraduate education and awarding at least 50 percent of its degrees in the arts and sciences. Of the schools in this category, most are private institutions.
Chosen from all colleges and universities in the country, Goshen College was listed among 24 schools with outstanding study abroad programs for its 39-year-old Study-Service Term program.
In addition, Goshen was ranked seventh among all colleges and universities for the percentage of students studying abroad, with 85 percent.
Goshen College was included on several select lists of liberal arts colleges. For the second time, Goshen College was named one of 87 liberal arts colleges that are “A+ options for B students.”
In addition, Goshen College made the following lists: top 100 campuses with most international students (with 7 percent); the list of highest proportion of classes under 20 (with 65 percent); a list of campus ethnic diversity (with 6 percent Hispanics); a list of economic diversity among all liberal arts colleges (with 23 percent of students receiving federal Pell Grants); and a list of schools whose freshmen are least (and most) likely to return (at 82 percent).
The 2008 collegiate rankings by U.S. News & World Report show Grace College in the top tier of the Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the Midwest region.
Grace recently welcomed a record 350 new full-time freshmen and transfer students.
The new students come from 25 states and six foreign countries and include 14 high school valedictorians and six salutatorians.
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