EC Ranks Number 6 in "America's Best Colleges"

USNews & World Report announces its 2008 "America's Best Colleges" rankings today and Elmira College received top six rankings.
Elmira College was ranked sixth in the “Best Baccalaureate Colleges – North” classification. Elmira College has ranked in the top tier of its classification for the past eleven years.

Among the criteria used to rank colleges, Elmira College ranks first in percentage of alumni giving at 51 percent. EC is 12th in the nation among all colleges and universities in this important measure of quality. The College is among the top one percent in the nation in alumni giving percentage.
The College was third among the top 20 colleges in its category in the highest proportion of classes under twenty students (80 percent) and tied for first for lowest proportion of classes of fifty students or more. (Elmira College has no undergraduate class with fifty students or more.)

Great College at a Great Price
The College also was recognized in a special section of the edition, on "Great Colleges for Great Prices," where Elmira was ranked second in its classification. This listing determines which colleges offer the best value in relationship to the college’s academic quality. (The higher the quality of the program and the lower the cost, the better the deal.) Only colleges in the top-half of their categories were considered, on the premise that the most significant values are among colleges that are above average academically.

The 2008 edition of the magazine and its guide book hit newsstands Monday, August 20th.