The University of Minnesota Crookston (UMC) has been named one of Money’s Best Colleges for 2018-19. The campus is ranked at number 190 among the list of the 727 best colleges in America. Money analyzed more than 25 data points including graduation rates, tuition costs, family borrowing, and alumni earnings to rank its list of the country’s top values in higher education.
UMC has been ranked among the top 100 Baccalaureate Colleges in the U.S. by Washington Monthly in its 2018 College Guide. Washington Monthly touts its college rankings as an alternative to those done by other organizations in that the focus is on outcomes, and it uses three evaluative data pillars in its methodology: social mobility, research, and public service. The publication includes higher education institutions in four distinctive categories: National Universities, Liberal Arts Colleges, Master’s Universities, and Baccalaureate Colleges. Each category includes both public and private institutions. UMC came in at #85 (its highest ranking to date) in its category, Baccalaureate Colleges, and it is the only Minnesota college in the top 100 on that list. View Washington Monthly’s full “2018 Rankings — Baccalaureate Colleges” list at https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018college-guide?ranking=2018-rankings-baccalaureate-colleges
The Crookston campus was recently announced as having not only one of the lowest average student debt figures in the entire state of Minnesota for the graduating Class of 2017, but also one of the lowest average student debt figures for all public institutions in the U.S. Specifically, UMC ranked #5 among public and private institutions of higher education in Minnesota in terms of having one of the lowest average student debt figures (refer to www.lendedu.com/blog/averagestudent-loan-debt-statistics#MN). UMC also ranked #184 among the “Public Top 200 Lowest Debt” public colleges and universities in the nation. These rankings were released as part of LendEDU’s third annual Student Loan Debt by School by State Report. Learn more at www.lendedu.com/blog/average-studentloan-debt-statistics.
