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8/17/10

'U.S. News & World Report' Lists St. Lawrence Among Best Colleges

CANTON - St. Lawrence University has risen one spot in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of national liberal arts colleges, just released. St. Lawrence University is Number 55 among the 266 best, most prestigious liberal arts colleges in the nation. That ranking places the University in the top 20 percent of its peer group.

"As we prepare to welcome first-year students selected from the second-largest application pool in University history, we are pleased with yet another validation that St. Lawrence is one of the best liberal arts institutions in the nation," said President William L. Fox. "Being in the top 20 percent of colleges in the nation is testimony to the achievements of our students, faculty, staff and alumni."

The 2011 rankings, which include fewer than half of all colleges in the nation, are available at www.usnews.com/colleges, and will also be published in the September issue of the magazine. The rankings have been compiled and published by the magazine for 27 years, grouping schools based on categories created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Colleges are compared against their peer institutions on a variety of factors.

Among the factors weighed in determining the rankings, the key measures of quality are: peer and guidance counselor assessment; graduation and retention rates; faculty resources; student selectivity; financial resources; alumni giving; and graduation-rate performance.

St. Lawrence recently was rated as one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education by the editors of The Princeton Review. Sierra magazine, a publication of the Sierra Club, recently recognized the University in its annual listing of colleges and universities contributing in the effort to stop climate change and educate students about sustainability.

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