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U.S. News & World Report:
“Best Colleges”

• No. 1 in the U.S. for social mobility
• Top 100 among the country’s national liberal arts colleges 
• No. 2 for alumni satisfaction as measured by annual giving
• No. 1 for the highest proportion of classes under 20 students (100 percent) and the lowest proportion of classes with more than 50 students (0 percent)

The Princeton Review

• High ratings for Return on Investment (90), academics (93), financial aid (98), and faculty accessibility (98).
• Top 15 percent of American four-year colleges
• No. 7 nationwide for financial aid
• No. 5 for “Happiest Students,” No. 5 for “Most Religious Students,” No. 5 for “Professors Get High Marks,” and No. 1 for “Most Conservative Students.”
• Results from student survey include: “brilliant, yet down-to-earth tutors” who are “are always available to talk and are open to any and all questions [students] may have”; students are “animated by a definitively Catholic spirit” and have “a strong desire to do good and help others.” 

• One of only 15 recommended colleges and universities in the United States
• “Impressive intellectual rigor that is matched by a commitment to orthodox Catholicism.”
• “The first in a wave of new Catholic colleges born from the crisis of Catholic identity in American Catholic higher education.”
• “The only Catholic college in America that teaches exclusively from [the] classic works of Western civilization.”

Association of College Trustees and Alumni  

• Top 2 percent of country’s major colleges and universities
• Two campuses constitute two of only seven colleges in the U.S. to receive a perfect score for ensuring that students study seven key areas: composition, literature, American history, foreign language, mathematics, science, and economics.
• Highest rating for strength of curriculum 

USA Today: “The 10 Best Roman Catholic Colleges”

• “Devoted to providing a strong education while being rooted in the Roman Catholic faith”
• “Great student to faculty ratio”
• “Excellent graduation and freshman retention rates”
• “Diverse student body that comes from states all across the nation”
• Also listed among Best 10 Colleges for the Money

National Catholic Register

• One of only 44 “faithfully Catholic colleges and universities nationwide” chosen for the “Catholic Identity College Guide”
• Perfect marks for all 10 measures of campus fidelity and moral climate
• “91���� is the only faithfully Catholic college that offers a fully integrated Great Books curriculum that spans all the major disciplines and is taught entirely via classroom discussion.”

Cool Colleges

• “The best college class I ever attended, undergraduate or graduate, was at 91����.”
• “[Students] backed up their comments with evidence and careful, logical arguments.”
• “I shall remember this class, where I was but a guest, for the rest of my life.”
• “A rigorous great books curriculum”

Kiplinger: “Best Values in Private Colleges”

• No. 1 among all colleges and universities
• Only Catholic school to be named to the Top 20
• Rankings based on outstanding academics and affordable cost

Washington Monthly

• Among top 150 American liberal arts colleges for “contribution to the public good”
• Top 50 for “Best Bang for the Buck” in the Western United States