is one of the nation鈥檚 , according to the annual聽U.S. News & World Report聽.
Last year, U.S. News added a social mobility ranking, and Oglethorpe is once again one of the best performing liberal arts schools in the country in that category. Social mobility measures the economic diversity of the student body by looking at Pell Grant recipient graduation rates. on a campus where 42% of students are Pell-eligible.[contextly_sidebar id=”ht9COUlm0RgZmNWTsWJR6uvNdQ9jVC0w”]
Oglethorpe also ranked as the . U.S. News measures ethnic diversity to “identify where students are most likely to encounter undergraduates from racial or ethnic groups different from their own.”
Universities nationwide are rated annually by聽U.S. News聽in an effort to help prospective students and their families evaluate higher education choices. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence聽and聽key weighted measures of quality: graduation and retention rates; assessment of excellence; faculty resources; student selectivity; financial resources; graduation rate performance; and alumni giving.
The country鈥檚 liberal arts colleges emphasize undergraduate education and award at least half of their degrees in the arts and sciences, which include such disciplines as English, the biological and physical sciences, history, foreign languages, and the visual and performing arts but exclude professional disciplines such as business, education, and nursing.
