U.S. News & World Report Overview Fall 2014 Office of Institutional Research and Planning
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
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
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% 5 3.4 13 3.2 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 1-19 6% 42% 80% Class size 50+ 2% 0% 1% Student Selectivity 25 17 Top 25% in HS Class 3.125% 34% 31% Critical Reading & Math, & ACT Comp 8.125% 920-1130 (V+M 25/75 percentile) 930-1140 (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
U.S. News Best Colleges 2014 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Institution Ranking Category Ranking Ranking Ranking Ranking Ranking Manhattan College Regional Univ - North 18 17 17 15 17 Le Moyne College Regional Univ North 19 24 20 18 17 Canisius College Regional Univ - North 27 27 23 20 20 Monmouth University Regional Univ - North 37 30 37 41 40 Sacred Heart University Regional Univ - North 38 33 38 41 33 Roger Williams Regional Univ - North 41 37 55 46 8 (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% 920-1130 61%/60% 13% Manhattan College 3.0 85% 970-1190 66%/74% 15% Le Moyne College 3.0 85% 980-1170 59%/74% 16% Canisius College 2.8 83% 980-1200 64%/67% 12% Monmouth University 2.9 80% 970-1150 59%/61% 5% Sacred Heart Univ. 2.9 79% 1020-1170 63%/70% 7% Roger Williams 2.9 80% 1020-1200 63%/62% 7% 5
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
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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
U.S. News Best Colleges 2015 - Regional Colleges (North) 9
U.S. News Best Colleges 2015 - Regional Univ. (North) TOP 25 10
U.S. News Best Colleges 2015 - Regional Univ. (North) TOP 26-50 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) 54 3.4 82% 61%/60% 42% 0% 13/1 920-1130 34% 79% 13% 27 Canisius College (NY) 57 2.8 83% 64%/67% 49% 0.3% 12/1 980-1200 53% 73% 12% 28 Ramapo College of NJ (NJ) 56 2.8 88% 69%/73% 37% 0% 17/1 990-1200 52% 55% 13% 28 Rutgers, The State Univ of NJ (NJ) 56 3.1 82% 50%/55% 37% 8% 11/1 930-1140 43% 59% 3% 28 Wagner College (NY) 56 3.0 82% 71%/62% 63% 1% 14/1 1050-1270 73% 70% 11% 31 Assumption College (MA) 55 2.7 83% 59%/73% 40% 0% 12/1 1020-1215 40% 74% 13% 31 CUNY Queens College (NY) 55 2.8 87% 42%/56% 41% 5% 14/1 1030-1220 65% 37% 20% 31 Hood College (MD) 55 2.9 77% 62%/66% 72% 0.3% 12/1 910-1160 45% 81% 19% 31 La Salle University (PA) 55 3.1 81% 59%/65% 44% 2% 13/1 880-1100 38% 80% 11% 31 Nazareth College (NY) 55 2.6 81% 70%/68% 62% 0% 10/1 1020-1180 65% 68% 12% 31 Springfield College (MA) 55 2.8 85% 51%/69% 52% 2% 13/1 920-1130 35% 70% 12% 37 Monmouth University (NJ) 54 2.9 80% 59%/61% 44% 0% 14/1 970-1150 49% 78% 5% 38 Alfred University (NY) 53 2.9 74% 60%/62% 59% 3% 12/1 1000-1200 43% 70% 15% 38 Marywood University (PA) 53 2.6 83% 56%/65% 62% 1% 11/1 950-1150 47% 70% 16% 38 Sacred Heart Univ (CT) 53 2.9 79% 63%/70% 42% 1% 14/1 1020-1170 39% 61% 7% 41 Arcadia University (PA) 52 2.8 80% 64%/61% 75% 4% 12/1 1000-1178 62% 60% 14% 41 College of St. Rose (NY) 52 2.6 79% 59%/66% 65% 0.1% 13/1 940-1150 44% 78% 19% 41 King's College (PA) 52 2.6 78% 54%/66% 59% 0% 13/1 940-1150 38% 72% 13% 41 Misericordia University (PA) 52 2.6 84% 55%/69% 48% 0% 13/1 970-1140 56% 65% 21% 41 Molloy College (NY) 52 2.3 89% 54%/66% 69% 0% 10/1 970-1140 56% 73% 10% 41 Richard Stockton Col. Of N.J. (NJ) 52 2.8 86% 55%/65% 24% 2% 17/1 980-1170 60% 62% 3% 41 Roger Williams Univ (RI) 52 2.9 80% 63%/62% 46% 1% 14/1 1020-1200 37% 81% 7% 41 SUNY College Oneonta (NY) 52 2.9 85% 59%/68% 38% 4% 18/1 1020-1180 58% 43% 7% 41 SUNY Fredonia (NY) 52 2.8 81% 52%/65% 62% 5% 15/1 950-1140 39% 52% 6% 50 CUNY Hunter College (NY) 51 3.2 86% 49%/50% 38% 7% 14/1 1070-1270 56% 31% 11% 50 Montclair State University (NJ) 51 3.0 83% 52%/63% 34% 2% 17/1 880-1060 35% 65% 4% 50 New York Institute of Technology (NY) 51 2.8 75% 60%/47% 62% 1% 11/1 1020-1220 52% 74% 14% 50 Niagara University (NY) 51 2.8 80% 54%/65% 51% 1% 12/1 930-1120 41% 66% 12% 50 Notre Dame of Maryland University (MD) 51 2.8 73% 56%/53% 88% 0% 12/1 930-1150 61% 50% 11% 50 Salve Regina Univ. (RI) 51 2.7 81% 65%/64% 39% 0% 13/1 1020-1190 45% 67% 16% 11