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U.S. News & World Report names Elon nation's top "Up-and-Coming" university
The new ranking of 70 schools is the result of the magazine’s survey of the nation’s college presidents, provosts and admissions deans. Those administrators at every college and university in the nation were asked to nominate up to 10 “Up-and-Coming” schools. Elon, along with #2 Belmont University in Tennessee, were nominated most often by survey respondents.
The U.S. News editors wrote that the 70 top schools are “looking to the future,” and said that “Elon has a strong reputation for student engagement, but it wants to do more.”
2009 U.S. News & World
Report For the second year in a row, Elon University is ranked #2 among 118 Southern master’s-level universities in the U.S. News & World Report “America’s Best Colleges” guide. Elon earned the top reputation score in the category, based on the magazine’s survey of administrators at colleges and universities in the Southern region. Elon University’s academic programs are listed in seven of the eight
categories in this year’s “Programs to Look For” feature of the U.S.
News & World Report “America’s Best Colleges” guide. No other
school in the nation earns as many category listings in the ranking,
which is derived from a national survey by the magazine of college
presidents, chief academic officers and chief admissions officers. Elon
is cited for excellence in the following categories: - First-year experiences As the top North Carolina school in the regional master's-level rankings, Elon earns high marks for academic reputation, freshman retention rate, graduation rate, entering freshmen SAT scores and class rank, small class sizes and low student-faculty ratio. These are the top 10 master's-level Southern universities:
Here are the full U.S. News & World Report
"Programs to Look For" lists that include
Elon:
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Newsweek-Kaplan
National Survey
For the seventh year in a row, the National Survey of Student Engagement found that Elon is performing among the nation's top schools on five benchmarks of academic excellence.
The Princeton
The Best 368 Colleges The Princeton Review named Elon's MBA program the second best administered business program in the nation in the 2007 edition of The Best 282 Business Schools. The guide, based on a national survey of business school students, notes that Elon students commended the school's flexible scheduling, engaged learning and affordable cost.
Fiske Guide to Colleges
The 2009 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges,
one of the nation's top-selling college gu
Elon #1 in study abroad
Elon named a top school for international
education
Elon tops in the nation for community
service
Colleges with a Conscience
Elon is among the nation's top universities in fostering social responsibility and public service, according to The Princeton Review and Campus Compact. Elon is one of 81 schools in 33 states featured in a new book, Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement.
Elon is among 13
Kaplan college
Elon is included in the 2005 edition of The 331 Most Interesting Colleges, published by Kaplan Publishing. The editors say "Elon specializes in "experiential education and a supportive community on a gorgeous campus." BusinessWeek Elon's MBA program was named the best in North Carolina and number two in the South in BusinessWeek magazine's inaugural ranking of top part-time MBA programs. The program was ranked #12 nationally. Additionally, The Martha and Spencer
Love School of Business is featured as one of the nation's top programs
in "The Best B-Schools" a new book from BusinessWeek.
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Elon University earns a top national ranking in a
new feature included in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report
“America’s Best Colleges” guide. The magazine named Elon the top
“Up-and-Coming” school in a listing of colleges and universities that
have made “striking improvements or innovations – schools everyone
should be watching.”
America's Best Value Colleges
The
Princeton Review lists Elon among the nation's top
schools in its 2009 The Best 368 Colleges guide.
Elon is ranked #16 on the guide's "School Runs
Like Butter" list. The Princeton Review also ranks
Elon's campus as the 11th most beautiful in the
nation.
ides, lists
Elon among 26 of the nation's "best buy"
private colleges and universities. The guide also says that
Elon is a "rapidly rising star among liberal arts
colleges in the Southeast and an emerging name
nationwide."
Kiplinger's names Elon a best value
university
For the second year in a row, Elon has
been named one of the country's top universities
for community service, earning a spot on the President's Higher Education Community Service
Honor Roll.
schools highlighted in a new
book that analyzes excellent programs for first-year
students. Achieving and Sustaining Institutional
Excellence for the First Year of College contains case
studies of schools chosen as Institutions of
Excellence. The studies illustrate and analyze best
practices in teaching, assessing and retaining first-year
college students.
