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1 U.S. News & World Report Overview Fall 2014 Office of Institutional Research and Planning

2 Understanding the Process & Timeframe Involuntary; All institutions included. Separate rankings based on school size/type Data gathered directly from institutions; validation process Data are current; averages used to increase stability Titled: 2015 Edition Released: Sept. 9, 2014 Submitted: Spring 2014 Data from: Fall 2013, FY13 2

3 U.S. News Categories Regional Colleges Where we are, 9 out of 61 (in North) 364 regional colleges, ranked within four regions: North, South, Midwest, and West. Carnegie Basic Classification = Baccalaureate Colleges Diverse >50% Bachelor degrees conferred in Professional programs (both 1 st & 2 nd major) Regional Universities Where we want to be 620 regional universities, ranked within four regions: North (182), South, Midwest, and West. Carnegie Basic Classification = Master s Colleges & Universities at least 50 Master s degrees conferred National Liberal Arts Colleges 249 national liberal arts colleges Carnegie Basic Classification = Baccalaureate Colleges Arts & Sciences >= 50% Bachelor degrees conferred in the Arts & Sciences (both 1 st & 2 nd major) National Universities 280 national universities Carnegie Basic Classification = Doctorate-Granting at least 20 Doctoral degrees conferred 3

4 U.S. News Ranking - 9 th in Regional Colleges Ranking Category Weight Merrimack s 2015 Rank Stats from 2015 Ranking Merrimack s 2014 Rank Stats from 2014 Ranking Peer Assessment Score 22.5% Graduation & Retention 8 7 Ave. 6-Year Grad Rate (4 yrs.) 18% 65% 67% Ave. Freshman Retention Rate (4 yrs.) 4.5% 82% 81% Faculty Resources 28 6 Faculty Compensation 7% n/av n/av % faculty-top terminal degree in field 3% 85% 83% % FTE faculty full-time 1% 70% 70% S/F ratio 1% 13/1 12/1 Class size % 42% 80% Class size 50+ 2% 0% 1% Student Selectivity Top 25% in HS Class 3.125% 34% 31% Critical Reading & Math, & ACT Comp 8.125% (V+M 25/75 percentile) (V+M 25/75 percentile) Acceptance Rate 1.25% 79% 77% Grad Rate Performance (Predicted. vs Actual) 7.5% 41 61% 60% 31 59% - 64% Financial Resources Per Student 10% 20 n/av 15 n/av Ave. Alumni Giving Rate (2 yrs) 5% 14 13% 17 11% 4

5 U.S. News Best Colleges Institution Ranking Category Ranking Ranking Ranking Ranking Ranking Manhattan College Regional Univ - North Le Moyne College Regional Univ North Canisius College Regional Univ - North Monmouth University Regional Univ - North Sacred Heart University Regional Univ - North Roger Williams Regional Univ - North (in R-C) Ave. FR SAT V+M/ACT 25th- Predicted/ Ave. Alumni Institution Peer Assessment retn. rate 75th percentile Actual Grad Rate Giving Rate Merrimack 3.4 (in Reg.-Coll.) 82% %/60% 13% Manhattan College % %/74% 15% Le Moyne College % %/74% 16% Canisius College % %/67% 12% Monmouth University % %/61% 5% Sacred Heart Univ % %/70% 7% Roger Williams % %/62% 7% 5

6 Additional Rankings/Lists by U.S. News Up and Coming Institutions Merrimack is the only college ranked as Up and Coming in Regional Colleges-North U.S. News asked respondents to: nominate (up to 10) colleges that are making recent improvements as an institution in academics, faculty, students, campus life, diversity or facilities. These are schools that everyone is or should be watching because they are making promising and innovative changes. Schools with 7 or more nominations were ranked by category. These nominations were the sole basis for determining the Up and Coming rankings. Best in Undergraduate Engineering Merrimack is 86 among 202 non-doctoral institutions ; only top 62 appear in magazine Peer Assessment score for this group was 2.6; ranking based solely on this Last year, Merrimack was also a 2.6, ranked 99 th. 6

7 Questions? 7

8 Peer Assessment Survey Survey sent to each President, Provost, & Dean of admission. Rate only schools within their U.S. News category. Rate each school s academic quality of undergrad. program on: 1 Marginal to 5 Distinguished scale with don t know" option Average peer score = total score for those rating the school 5 through 1 among those respondents for that school, divided by the number of respondents that rate that school in that category. 8

9 U.S. News Best Colleges Regional Colleges (North) 9

10 U.S. News Best Colleges Regional Univ. (North) TOP 25 10

11 U.S. News Best Colleges Regional Univ. (North) TOP US News Weight: Overall score SAT Predicted/Actual % FR top Ave. Peer Ave. FR % class % class V+M/ACT Accept. Grad Rate S/F ratio 25% of giving Score retn. rate < 20 >=50 25th-75th rate Performance HSclass rate percentile 22.5% 4.5% 7.5% 6% 2% 1% 8.125% 3.125% 1.25% 5% 2015 Merrimack (MA) % 61%/60% 42% 0% 13/ % 79% 13% 27 Canisius College (NY) % 64%/67% 49% 0.3% 12/ % 73% 12% 28 Ramapo College of NJ (NJ) % 69%/73% 37% 0% 17/ % 55% 13% 28 Rutgers, The State Univ of NJ (NJ) % 50%/55% 37% 8% 11/ % 59% 3% 28 Wagner College (NY) % 71%/62% 63% 1% 14/ % 70% 11% 31 Assumption College (MA) % 59%/73% 40% 0% 12/ % 74% 13% 31 CUNY Queens College (NY) % 42%/56% 41% 5% 14/ % 37% 20% 31 Hood College (MD) % 62%/66% 72% 0.3% 12/ % 81% 19% 31 La Salle University (PA) % 59%/65% 44% 2% 13/ % 80% 11% 31 Nazareth College (NY) % 70%/68% 62% 0% 10/ % 68% 12% 31 Springfield College (MA) % 51%/69% 52% 2% 13/ % 70% 12% 37 Monmouth University (NJ) % 59%/61% 44% 0% 14/ % 78% 5% 38 Alfred University (NY) % 60%/62% 59% 3% 12/ % 70% 15% 38 Marywood University (PA) % 56%/65% 62% 1% 11/ % 70% 16% 38 Sacred Heart Univ (CT) % 63%/70% 42% 1% 14/ % 61% 7% 41 Arcadia University (PA) % 64%/61% 75% 4% 12/ % 60% 14% 41 College of St. Rose (NY) % 59%/66% 65% 0.1% 13/ % 78% 19% 41 King's College (PA) % 54%/66% 59% 0% 13/ % 72% 13% 41 Misericordia University (PA) % 55%/69% 48% 0% 13/ % 65% 21% 41 Molloy College (NY) % 54%/66% 69% 0% 10/ % 73% 10% 41 Richard Stockton Col. Of N.J. (NJ) % 55%/65% 24% 2% 17/ % 62% 3% 41 Roger Williams Univ (RI) % 63%/62% 46% 1% 14/ % 81% 7% 41 SUNY College Oneonta (NY) % 59%/68% 38% 4% 18/ % 43% 7% 41 SUNY Fredonia (NY) % 52%/65% 62% 5% 15/ % 52% 6% 50 CUNY Hunter College (NY) % 49%/50% 38% 7% 14/ % 31% 11% 50 Montclair State University (NJ) % 52%/63% 34% 2% 17/ % 65% 4% 50 New York Institute of Technology (NY) % 60%/47% 62% 1% 11/ % 74% 14% 50 Niagara University (NY) % 54%/65% 51% 1% 12/ % 66% 12% 50 Notre Dame of Maryland University (MD) % 56%/53% 88% 0% 12/ % 50% 11% 50 Salve Regina Univ. (RI) % 65%/64% 39% 0% 13/ % 67% 16% 11

WELCOME TO THE 65TH ANNUAL COLLEGE NIGHT 2016! AT SCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 7:00 P.M. Don't Miss It!!!

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