Two new college rankings list ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ among the top schools in the nation. Business Insider names it one of the 50 Most Underrated Colleges in America, and Princeton Review recognizes ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ among Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Best-ÂValue Colleges, “the best overall bargains based on cost and financial aid among the most academically outstanding colleges in the nation.â€�
Business Insider features the top 50 schools whose graduates make much higher salaries than their U.S. News rankings would suggest. The New YorkÂ-based business and technology news website considered both the 2015 U.S. News & World Report ratings and PayScale’s 2013-Â2014 College Salary Report (which focuses on the mid-Âcareer salaries of graduates) to identify underrated institutions. ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ tied for No. 41 in the Business Insider ranking with Auburn University, Stonehill College, the University of Tulsa and the University of St. Thomas.
The Princeton Review developed a unique returnÂ-onÂ-education (ROE) rating to winnow
its list of the 200 colleges for their new book, “Colleges That Pay You Back: The
200 Best Value Colleges and What It Takes to Get In—2015 Edition.� ROE measures 40
weighted data points—everything from academics, cost, financial aid, and student debt
to statistics on graduation rates, alumni salaries and job satisfaction. The company
based the ROE rating on data it collected in 2013-Â14 from surveys of administrators
and students at 650 colleges, plus surveys conducted by PayScale.com through April
2014 of alumni from the same schools. The list also appears online at .
“Both these rankings recognize the tremendous success and achievements of our alumni as well as the excellence of our academic program,� says President Gayle D. Beebe. “We prepare our graduates to not only thrive in all spheres of society but to become leaders in all spheres of society. We’re proud of what they’ve accomplished.�
Last September, U.S. News ranked ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ in the top 100 best liberal arts colleges for the sixth straight year. The Washington Post listed ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ as No. 15 in the nation for colleges and universities with the greatest salary growth between average starting and average midÂ-career salaries. A Forbes magazine story identified ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ as No. 23 among the national liberal arts colleges whose graduates earn the highest salaries.
