MOUNT VERNON — The recently released U.S. News & World Report annual guide to “America’s Best Colleges” ranks Cornell College in the second tier among 217 national liberal arts colleges.
U.S. News separates the colleges into four tiers. Tier 2 colleges are ranked 53 to 113. Cornell’s actual ranking is in the top 100 of national liberal arts colleges.
“The hallmark of the Cornell College experience is the quality of faculty-student relationships on our close-knit campus,” says Jonathan Stroud, vice president for enrollment. “While this indicator of quality cannot be captured adequately in rankings found in U.S. News or other college guides, we are nonetheless pleased that the college’s place among the finest colleges in the country is being increasingly recognized in these types of publications.”
Cornell also was included among the top 10 percent of colleges and universities across the nation and Canada in The Princeton Review’s 2003 edition of “The Best 345 Colleges.” The October 2002 issue of Seventeen magazine ranks Cornell eighth among the Top 10 “Cool” Small Schools. Cornell also is listed in “Peterson’s Competitive Colleges: Top Colleges for Top Students”; “Kaplan’s Unofficial, Unbiased Insider’s Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges”; and “Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That’s Right for You” and “Colleges That Change Lives,” books by Lauren Pope, former education editor of the New York Times and director of the College Placement Bureau.