Scranton among the ‘best’ colleges

The Times-Tribune
08/26/2007

The University of Scranton received three national accolades in seven days. Northeast Pennsylvania’s Jesuit university was the only college in the region to be among the elite colleges in the nation profiled in the Princeton Review’s “The 366 Best Colleges,” marking the sixth consecutive year that Scranton made Princeton Review’s exclusive list. The guide was published on Aug. 21.

The university was also listed as one of the top 10 master’s- level universities in the north by U.S. News & World Report. This is the 14th consecutive year the magazine has ranked Scranton among the top 10 schools in the north. The list, published on Monday in the annual edition of “America’s Best Colleges,” also listed Scranton among the “Great Schools at a Great Price,” which relates academic quality to the cost of attendance. Also, for the fourth consecutive year, Scranton has been named among the five schools in its category listed for having the “Highest Graduation Rates.”

The University of Scranton was also the only area college to be listed in Kaplan/Newsweek’s 2008 publication “How to Get Into College,” which listed Scranton among the nation’s “372 Most Interesting Schools” for the second consecutive year. The Kaplan/ Newsweek guide was published on Aug. 15.