College ranked #49 by Kiplinger
Jillian Bevacqua
Issue date: 11/19/09 Section: News
The Express Times and lehighvalleylive.com have proudly reported that the College has been placed into Kiplinger's Personal Finance top 100 list of Best Values for Private Schools. This list, which is updated and published annually by Kiplinger's, also ranks Lehigh University and Lafayette College among the best private colleges and universities across the country.
The College was ranked number 49 on the list. While this number is a small drop from the College's rank of 41 last year, both Lehigh and Lafayette dropped in their scores as well, presumably due to difficulties in the current down-turned economy.
Kiplinger's considers admission rate, SAT or ACT averages, students per faculty ratio, graduation rate, total cost, cost after need-based and non-need-based aid, aid from grants, non-need-based aid, and average student dept after graduation. The list starts with statistics collected on 600 different private institutions, and is then further narrowed down to 100.
Most of the schools that made the list have annual tuition costs that come near to or exceed 50 thousand dollars, the College included. Much of the scoring therefore comes from the school's ability to compensate students with grants and financial aid.
While this is always impressive coming from such expensive schools, Kiplinger's editors were additionally impressed this year in light of the present economy. Tuition increases on the whole did not exceed more than about 4 percent, which would have been considered impressive even in a turned-around economy.
The Weekly wishes to express great appreciation to all those who made this achievement possible.
The College was ranked number 49 on the list. While this number is a small drop from the College's rank of 41 last year, both Lehigh and Lafayette dropped in their scores as well, presumably due to difficulties in the current down-turned economy.
Kiplinger's considers admission rate, SAT or ACT averages, students per faculty ratio, graduation rate, total cost, cost after need-based and non-need-based aid, aid from grants, non-need-based aid, and average student dept after graduation. The list starts with statistics collected on 600 different private institutions, and is then further narrowed down to 100.
Most of the schools that made the list have annual tuition costs that come near to or exceed 50 thousand dollars, the College included. Much of the scoring therefore comes from the school's ability to compensate students with grants and financial aid.
While this is always impressive coming from such expensive schools, Kiplinger's editors were additionally impressed this year in light of the present economy. Tuition increases on the whole did not exceed more than about 4 percent, which would have been considered impressive even in a turned-around economy.
The Weekly wishes to express great appreciation to all those who made this achievement possible.