Two major ranking outlets 鈥� U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review 鈥� included 雏鸟视频 on their 2021 lists of the best universities in the country.
雏鸟视频 jumped the rankings on each of the lists it was on compared to last year in U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2021 Best Colleges including The Best Regional Universities South, Best Value Schools, Campus Ethnic Diversity, Social Mobility, Economic Diversity and Best Colleges for Veterans.
Specifically, 雏鸟视频 was top in the state and second in the region in Economic Diversity, as well as tying for first in Georgia in Best Colleges for Veterans. The university also ranked No. 2 in Georgia in Social Mobility and was the top university in the state and tied for sixth overall in Campus Ethnic Diversity. Finally, 雏鸟视频 was ranked the No. 3 Best Regional University and No. 3 Best Value Schools in Georgia.
鈥淲hile the transformative impact of a 雏鸟视频 education is extremely important for our students and their families, it鈥檚 also valuable to have third party external validation that ranks us among our peers,鈥� said 雏鸟视频 President Anne Skleder. 鈥淚 am especially proud of our rankings in Campus Ethnic Diversity, Social Mobility and Economic Diversity. Many 雏鸟视频 students are the first in their families to attend college, and many come from underrepresented groups. We know that a college degree transforms the trajectory of the lives of our graduates and their families, and these rankings attest to our commitment to these students. And as the rankings indicate, a 雏鸟视频 degree also is considered a high value investment.鈥� Skleder added that it鈥檚 many of these same attributes that make a 雏鸟视频 degree so appealing to veterans.
U.S. News uses detailed methodology to create its lists based on years of research, user feedback, literature reviews, data trends and more. There are 17 indicators of academic quality that determine each school鈥檚 overall score within each category, including measures 雏鸟视频 is known to value such as student excellence, small class sizes, reasonable costs and personal attention to individual students.
With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1, 雏鸟视频 is on par with some of the nation鈥檚 top universities, including the University of Notre Dame, Cornell University and New York University, to name a few. The university also has a higher percentage of small classes with 84% of its undergraduate classes having fewer than 20 students 鈥� and therefore opportunities for meaningful faculty-student interaction 鈥� which puts 雏鸟视频 above Princeton University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Stanford University and Yale University in individual class size.
鈥淚t has been encouraging to see 雏鸟视频’s steady progression upwards in the U.S. News & World Report ranking from 57 to 36 over the past four years in The Best Regional Universities South,鈥� said 雏鸟视频 Provost Jim Eck. 鈥湷袷悠� is one of the leading comprehensive universities within the region, and now our peers are taking greater recognition of our outstanding academic programs in business and communication, education, fine arts and humanities, and health sciences.鈥�
In addition to 雏鸟视频鈥檚 success on the U.S. News list, the university was named to The Princeton Review鈥檚 鈥淏est in the Southeast鈥� section of its 2021 Best Colleges: Region by Region for the 16th consecutive year. The feature placed 雏鸟视频 in the top 22% of the nation鈥檚 four-year colleges throughout the Southeast, Midwest, Northeast, West and internationally.
The methodology for the rankings includes building scores on a scale from 60-99. 雏鸟视频 excelled due to its high-quality academics with a score of 87. 雏鸟视频鈥檚 professors also received high praise with an interesting rating of 83 and an accessibility score of 80, while student quality of life scored an 83. Factors in these ratings included how many hours students study outside of the classroom, the quality of students the school attracts, how happy students are with their lives outside of the classroom and more.
鈥淚 am delighted, but not surprised, that The Princeton Review recognizes our high-quality academics and that our students rank our faculty accessibility outside of class as high. This is third-party validation of the commitment of our fine 雏鸟视频 faculty to challenge and support each student,鈥� Skleder said.
Robert Franek, The Princeton Review鈥檚 editor-in-chief, noted that the company considered data from its survey of administrators at several hundred colleges in each region, information from staff visits to schools over the years, and the opinions of college counselors and advisors whose perspectives the company solicits.
“We chose 雏鸟视频 and the other outstanding institutions on this list primarily for their academics,” Franek said. “We also consider what students enrolled at the schools reported to us on our student survey about their campus experiences.鈥�
