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For release King’s Earns Place on CCAP/Forbes List of America’s Best Colleges August 13, 2010 – King’s College has been placed in the top half of an exclusive list of American academic institutions compiled for “Forbes” magazine by The Center for College Affordability and Productivity based on multiple factors related to affordability and student and faculty achievement. King’s ranking improved dramatically, from 366 to 294 of 600 institutions. Less than 10 percent of the nearly 6,600 colleges and universities nationwide are included in Forbes third annual ranking of America’s Best Colleges. Unlike other national rankings, which separate institutions by size or degrees offered, the Forbes list mixes public and private, baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degree granting and liberal arts and research driven entities. King’s was the only Luzerne County college or university included in the list and one of only two institutions (University of Scranton) in northeastern Pennsylvania. Colleges and universities were included on the list based on performance in five areas. The areas, listed in order from most weighted to least, were student evaluations of faculty members, postgraduate success, low four-year debt load for typical student borrowers, four-year graduation rates, and students receiving nationally competitive awards. “We take great pride in the education we provide at King’s,” said Father Thomas O’Hara, C.S.C., president of King’s. “We are gratified to receive this important national recognition by Forbes magazine.” The Center for College Affordability and Productivity, based in Washington, D.C., that produced the report for Forbes is dedicated to research on the issues of rising costs and efficiency in higher education. The Forbes distinction is in addition to King’s selection as a “Best Northeastern College” by the “Princeton Review,” a student survey-based measure of quality colleges and universities. King’s was also named one of 284 colleges and universities in the United States included in a recently published national guidebook which highlights educators “committed to serving and supporting today’s first-generation, low-income and traditionally underserved college-bound students.” King's College is a Catholic College sponsored by the Congregation of Holy Cross. |