Cornell among U.S. News Top Tier
MOUNT VERNON – The 2010 U.S. News & World Report annual guide to “America’s Best Colleges” ranks Cornell College in the top tier among 266 national liberal arts colleges and features it among “Great Schools, Great Prices.”
Cornell is ranked 85th out of the 249 ranked liberal arts colleges.
Even more telling, Cornell is 33rd on the list of liberal arts “Great Schools, Great Prices,” which is based on academic quality and net cost.
“The hallmark of the Cornell College experience is the extraordinary opportunities, in the classroom, on campus, and around the world, for students afforded, in large part, by our distinctive One Course At A Time academic calendar,” said Jonathan Stroud, vice president for enrollment.
“While institutional quality cannot be captured adequately in college rankings, we are nonetheless pleased that Cornell is being recognized fittingly among the nation’s finest colleges,” he added.
Cornell has long been recognized as a top institution, and was included as one of 40 Colleges That Change Lives. The college has also been cited in The Fiske Guide to Colleges as a “Top Financial Find” and was 105th among all schools in a recent Forbes ranking, and first in Iowa. The Princeton Review also cited Cornell as among the best in the country.
The full rankings will be released in the Aug. 20 issue of U.S. News & World Report.
