Mount Ida College Ranked # 27 by US News and World Report

NEWTON, Mass. - Sept. 13, 2016 - PRLog -- Mount Ida College has risen in the ranks of US News and World Report Best Regional Colleges North from 40^th to 27^th in three years placing it among the region's first tier colleges.

"This is an extraordinary achievement," says Barry Brown, President of Mount Ida College. "It speaks to the progress that Mount Ida has made, evolving from a small liberal arts college into a successful model of quality career-focused education and experiential learning, grounded in social sciences and humanities."

US News and World Report bases its rankings on the beliefs that students and families should have as much information as possible about the comparative merits of the educational programs at America's Colleges and Universities.

The rankings of schools and colleges against peer institutions is based on a formula that uses objective measures of academic quality, such as graduation rates, faculty information and admissions data. These data account for 77.5 percent of the measure.  The remaining 22.5 percent is based on academic reputation, determined by a peer assessment from top academics at colleges in the National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges categories. Ratings from high school counselors are also factored in.

The peer assessment portion of the survey asks the president, provost and dean of admissions at each school to rate the quality of the academic programs at schools in the same ranking category, including their own.

"When you combine our steadily increasing numbers in student retention and graduation rates with the high regard in which we are held by our peers, this jump in rank is a validation of what we know to be true on our campus," says Brown.  "We are offering the best of both worlds; the highest quality classroom education combined with the experiential learning that is preparing our students to thrive and succeed in their careers, as evidenced by a job placement rate for graduates that is close to double the national average. "

To learn more about Mount Ida College http://www.mountida.edu