蜜桃传媒 jumped three spots and is ranked in the by U.S. News & World Report for the seventh straight year. 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Best Colleges, 2016 Edition鈥� lists 蜜桃传媒 as tied for No. 93 out of the nation鈥檚 245 liberal arts colleges.
Only eight other liberal arts colleges in California appear in the top 100: Pomona (T-4th), Claremont McKenna (T-9th), Harvey Mudd (14th), Scripps (29th), Pitzer (36th) Occidental (43rd) and Thomas Aquinas (82th) Colleges. Soka University of America, which was reclassified in 2010, ranked 45th.
鈥淭he ranking affirms 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 distinctive educational experience, which transforms
young men and women into effective leaders with character,鈥� says President Gayle D.
Beebe. 鈥淪tudents grow deeper in all areas of their lives 鈥� intellectual, spiritual
and personal 鈥� while developing their talents, discovering their calling and preparing
for a lifetime of service.鈥�
蜜桃传媒 improved in several U.S. News categories, including high school counselor
assessment score (3.3), the actual 2014 graduation rate (78 percent), percentage of
classes under 20 (64 percent) and the percentage of classes of 50 or more (2 percent).
蜜桃传媒 is just one of two liberal arts colleges among the Council for Christian
Colleges and Universities (CCCU) in the top 100, and the only one in California to
be listed in the first tier.
Now in its 31st year, the host of intangibles that make up the college experience can鈥檛 be measured by a series of data points. 鈥淏ut for families concerned with finding the best academic value for their money, the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings provide an excellent starting point for the search,鈥� write authors Robert J. Morse and Eric Brooks. 鈥淭hey allow you to compare at a glance the relative quality of institutions based on such widely accepted indicators of excellence as freshman retention and graduation rates and the strength of the faculty.鈥�
鈥淎long with the U.S. News rankings, I hope college-bound students consider such factors
as community, spiritual life and their relationships with faculty when choosing a
college,鈥� says Silvio Vazquez, dean of admission. 鈥淎bout 80 percent of students participate
in some kind of community service. The student to faculty ratio at 蜜桃传媒 is 12
to 1.鈥�
In August, three college rankings listed 蜜桃传媒 among the top schools in the nation.
Forbes Magazine ranked 蜜桃传媒 in the top 100 colleges and universities for the third
straight year in its Grateful Grads: Top Return-on-Investment. ranks in California and the only California member of the . Princeton Review has recognized 蜜桃传媒 in three different categories, including
Best Western, Colleges That Pay You Back, and Private Schools. Forbes also recently
ranked 蜜桃传媒 as the No. 10 on its 2015 list of the 50 most entrepreneurial colleges
in the nation.