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In its 2025 Best Colleges rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Elmira College #8 among the Best Regional Colleges in the North. U.S. News and World Report places a lot of its emphasis on graduation and retention rates, indicating that students who attend Elmira College are likely to stay and successfully earn their degrees.
Elmira College ranked #3 in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Value Colleges list. The list takes into account a school's academic quality, as indicated by its 2025 U.S. News Best Colleges ranking, and the 2023-2024 net cost of attendance for a student who received the average level of need-based financial aid. The higher the quality of the program and the lower the cost, the better the deal. Only schools ranked in or near the top half of their categories are included because U.S. News considers the most significant values to be among colleges that are above average academically.
The College was ranked #7 on the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Top Performers on Social Mobility list, which focuses on a school's success with enrolling and graduating disadvantaged students who have received Pell Grants. Most of these federal grant recipients come from homes with adjusted gross family incomes under $50,000.
Elmira College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates to earn their college degree, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends Elmira in The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition.
Elmira College ranks #11 on the list of the Top 223 Bachelor's Colleges, according to the Washington Monthly's 2024 college rankings. The rankings focus on what colleges do for their students and their contribution to the public good.
Elmira College was named to Money's list of Best Colleges in America 2024. Money's rankings only include U.S. colleges that have sufficient reliable data to analyze, and in order to make the list, a college's graduation rate must be at or above the median for its institutional category. The annual review also eliminates institutions that showed at least two signs of financial difficulty, such as having low bond ratings or being labeled by the U.S. Department of Education as having financial issues.