United Methodist colleges ranked among America's best
9/5/2000 By United Methodist News Service Several United Methodist-related colleges and universities have been included in the annual ranking of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report.
Duke University in Durham, N.C., and Emory University in Atlanta, were among the top 50 national universities listed by the magazine for 2001. Duke ranked No. 8 and Emory ranked 18th. The top-ranked national liberal arts colleges included DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., 39th, and Willamette University in Salem, Ore., 50th.
The overall ranking system rests on two pillars, according to information on the magazine's Web site:
· quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality; and
· nonpartisan views of what matters in education.
The colleges are categorized by mission and region, and data are gathered from each on up to 16 indicators of academic excellence. Each factor is assigned a weight based on the magazine's own judgment. Finally, the schools in each category are ranked against their peers, based on their composite weighted score. The indicators used to capture academic quality fall into seven categories:
· academic reputation;
· retention of students;
· faculty resources;
· student selectivity;
· financial resources;
· alumni giving; and
· (for national universities and liberal arts colleges) graduation rate performance, the difference between the proportion of students expected to graduate and the proportion that actually do.
Other United Methodist-related schools and their rankings are:
Midwestern universities - University of Evansville (Ind.) (11th); Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio (13th); North Central College, Naperville, Ill. (14th); and Baker University, Baldwin, Kan. (31st).
Midwestern liberal arts colleges - Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio (5th); Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio (7th); Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa (8th); Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio (13th); Adrian (Mich.) College (30th); and McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill. (30th).
Northern liberal arts colleges -- Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa. (9th); Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pa. (11th); and Dickinson College in Carlisle Pa. (47th).
Southern universities - Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport (12th).
Southern liberal arts colleges - Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va. (3rd); Columbia (S.C.) College (10th); Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Fla. (19th); High Point (N.C.) University (19th); and LaGrange (Ga.) College (29th).
Western universities - Oklahoma City University (25th).
Western liberal arts colleges - McMurry University, Abilene, Texas (16th).
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