For the seventh consecutive year, Hamline University remains the top-ranked Minnesota university in its class in the 2008 rankings of American’s Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report magazine released today.
Hamline University ranked first in Minnesota and ninth among 140 universities in the Midwest region and among the top schools nationally in the magazine’s Best Universities-Master’s category of 540 schools. Hamline has been ranked in the top nine in the Midwest since it was added to the Best Universities-Master’s category in 2001.
In the U.S. News section entitled “Great Schools, Great Prices” in which schools are ranked in terms of dollar value for the quality of education, Hamline University was ranked in the top ten “best value” schools among the 140 universities in its class. Hamline is the only Minnesota school in the Best Universities-Master’s category to make this list. The only others to be considered “best value” schools in Minnesota were Carleton College and Macalester College; they are ranked in the liberal arts colleges category.
The magazine’s Best Universities-Master’s category includes comprehensive colleges and universities throughout the nation that award primarily undergraduate and master’s degrees with a small number of doctorate degrees. The rankings measure a school’s overall academic reputation, as well as selected criteria within its undergraduate college, to compute an academic quality rating.
A complete listing of this year’s rankings are available at the U.S. News & World Report Web site at: www.usnews.com
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