Principia Climbs to New Heights in 2022 College Rankings
The quality of a Principia College education has again been recognized by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, two of the country’s leading college rankings.
In its 2022 Best Colleges rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Principia College #5 for Most International Students for National Liberal Arts Colleges and #6 for Best Value for National Liberal Arts Colleges. Overall, the College climbed to #59 out of 222 schools this year from #93 out of 221 schools in 2021, ranking in the top third of liberal arts colleges in the nation.
The latest U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings assessed 1,466 U.S. bachelor's degree-granting institutions on 17 measures of academic quality, such as the student-faculty ratio and the average federal loan debt of graduates.
Principia College is also listed in The Princeton Review’s Best in the Midwest section of its "2022 Best Colleges: Region by Region" list.
"We chose Principia College and the other outstanding institutions on this list primarily for their academics," says Robert Franek, The Princeton Review's editor-in-chief. He noted that the education-services company considered data from its survey of administrators from 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 also consider what students enrolled at the schools reported to us on our student survey about their campus experiences," Franek adds.
An additional ranking by University Headquarters places Principia College on its list of Top 100 Most Affordable Entrepreneurship Programs, which takes into account factors such as the cost of tuition, retention, and graduation rates for the best accredited business programs.
See the full list of Principia College rankings.