From: Phil deHaan (dehp@calvin.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 13:53:42 EDT
September 13, 2002 == FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Calvin College has moved up one slot from a year ago in the annual U.S. News &
World Report rankings, holding down number three in the category of Midwest
Comprehensive Bachelor's Colleges. There are 109 schools in that group.
"There are some very good schools in our category," says Calvin vice president
Tom McWhertor, "including in the top 10. We're happy to be recognized as one of
them."
MIAA colleague St. Mary's, Ind., was number one in Calvin's category, while
Taylor, Ind., was second. St. Norbert, Wis., was fourth, while Ohio Northern
and Otterbein, Ohio, were tied for fifth. Simpson, Wartburg and Central of Iowa
were seventh through ninth with Augustana, S.D., Huntington, Ind., and Millikin,
Ill. rounding out the top 10 in a tie for tenth.
Schools were rated in such categories as peer assessment, freshman retention
rate, graduation rate, full-time faculty and more. Calvin scored the best of
any school in its category in peer assessment, a rating that measures what
presidents, provosts and deans of admissions at Calvin's competitors think of
the school's academic programs.
McWhertor was pleased by that: "To have our academic efforts recognized by our
peers is heartening."
Calvin also scored high in its category in percentage of faculty who are
full-time, freshman retention rate and graduation rate.
Calvin's category is made up of institutions that focus on undergraduate
education and offer a range of degree programs, in the liberal arts, which
account for fewer than half the bachelor's degrees, and in professional fields
such as business, nursing, accounting, engineering, social work and education.
U.S News & World Report has been ranking colleges since 1983 and its survey is
widely considered to be one of the most thorough. The survey ranks colleges on
academic reputation, graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student
selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving. Calvin has been a top-ranked
school 15 of the last 17 years.
NOTE: Calvin this year also was saluted by such rankings guides as The
Princeton Review, the Fiske Guide and the Kaplan Guide. For more on that see
www.calvin.edu/news For more on U.S. News & World Report, see www.usnews.com
Contact Tom McWhertor at 616-957-6650
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