Albertus Magnus College Again Included in Annual US News & World Report Rankings

New Haven, Conn., September 12, 2022 – Albertus Magnus College is once again recognized by US News & World Report in its 2022-2023 college rankings. For the fifth consecutive year, the values and liberal arts-based College scored as a Top 100 Regional University in the North out of the thousands of institutions surveyed. A major contributor to the College’s continued Top 100 inclusion is its graduation rate, outperforming the publication’s predicted graduation rate for Albertus by more than 20-percent.

The 2022-2023 rankings again feature Albertus as a “Top Performer in the Social Mobility” category, for its success in graduating low income students who received Federal Pell Grants. Albertus also was included in a new US News category, “Campus Ethnic Diversity,” which focuses on the likelihood of students meeting and interacting with students from different racial and/or ethnic groups different from than their own—in this new metric, Albertus ranks among the top 12-percent of all institutions in the Regional Universities North category.

“Before being elected as President at Albertus, I spent nearly three decades working in the college admissions world,” noted Albertus President, Marc M. Camille, Ed.D. Throughout those years and continuing to today, I’ve observed the heightened frenzy around the various college rankings. On the one hand, they serve one source of information for potential college students and their families. However, college rankings cannot answer whether a particular college is the right fit for an individual student. When I review these latest US News rankings and where Albertus was singled out, I note the overall recognition for the College and the particular focus on our graduation rate, success in educating students from lower socioeconomic statuses, and our student body diversity. Outcomes, education access, diversity as a marker of institutional excellence... these are among the important, valuable factors for a right fit college. I’m proud to lead Albertus Magnus College, and I’m pleased with the expanding external recognition of our time-tested, values- and liberal arts-based education.”

The 2022-2023 US News accolades arrive shortly after the Albertus Class of 2026, whose members started their classes on August 29 and continue the College’s growing demand for admission. Of the 194 first-year and transfer students, 9-percent are enrolled in the College’s Honors Program and 85-percent qualified for substantial merit-based scholarships. More than half of the newest Albertus students come from minority backgrounds and are the first in their family to pursue college degrees, while nearly the same percentage will be competing as Fearless Falcons on one of the College’s 16 NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletics teams.