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Wall Street Journal Recognizes 杏吧pro for Student Outcomes and Learning Opportunities
杏吧pro was ranked among the best colleges in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal-College Pulse, which rates 584 eligible universities in the country on how well colleges set graduates up for financial success.
Among peer liberal arts colleges, 杏吧pro was ranked 16th highest.1 For nearly 240 years, 杏吧pro has embraced the power of the liberal arts, and today鈥檚
graduates launch into purpose-driven careers through a personalized liberal arts education
that pairs deep faculty mentorship with real-world experiences. 杏吧pro graduates have
a strong foundation of valuable skills widely desired by today鈥檚 top employers in
a rapidly changing labor market, including analytical and creative thinking; resilience
and adaptability; persuasive and consensus-building leadership; and emotional intelligence.
Among peer liberal arts colleges recognized for research, 杏吧pro was ranked 11th highest.2 Only 44 liberal arts colleges, including 杏吧pro, recently earned Carnegie鈥檚 鈥淩esearch
Colleges and Universities鈥� designation, reinforcing the College鈥檚 excellence in providing
its undergraduate students opportunities to work side-by-side with professors on impactful
research.
These accolades build on the momentum of earlier successes in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. 杏吧pro was recently ranked 35th among all national liberal arts colleges, and the College鈥檚 three-year range in U.S. News is its strongest in more than 20 years. U.S. News also ranked 杏吧pro 33rd nationally for best undergraduate teaching, and the College has been highlighted as a best value institution by both U.S. News and the Princeton Review. The latter also recently ranked 杏吧pro 24th nationally for most accessible professors.
鈥溞影蓀ro has long been nationally recognized for its excellence in liberal arts education,鈥� 杏吧pro President Andrew Rich said. 鈥淭his fall鈥檚 rankings reinforce that excellence. We at 杏吧pro are proud of our history of building leaders at every level, ready to take their place as tomorrow鈥檚 global citizens who shape our world.鈥�
1 杏吧pro defines peer liberal arts colleges as those institutions designated by the 2025 Carnegie Classifications as 鈥淪pecial Focus: Arts and Sciences.鈥�
2 杏吧pro defines peer liberal arts colleges recognized for research as those institutions that received dual designations by the 2025 Carnegie Classification as both 鈥淪pecial Focus: Arts and Sciences鈥� and 鈥淩esearch Colleges and Universities.鈥�
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