Saturday, February 18, 2017

#WhyGustavus Series: The Student Experience

Receiving a strong education is the most important reason you attend college, so it's crucial to find an academically strong institution with a great reputation that will help you successfully pursue your career post-graduation.  Well, Gustavus fits those criteria. Not only do we provide a fantastic Liberal Arts Education, but we have amazing graduation outcomes and there are Gusties everywhere just waiting to help students and alums get internships, attend graduate school, enter the work force, etc.  The rankings below by the Wall Street Journal says it all: Gustavus is ranked third among private colleges in Minnesota, only behind Carleton and Macalester.

You want to receive a great education and be part of an unbelievable community that will take care of you for the rest of your life?  Gustavus is that place.



Gustavus Scores Highly in Inaugural Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings

The College ranks 144th in the nation and third among private colleges in Minnesota.

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Gustavus Adolphus College ranks 144th among colleges and universities across the United States in the first-ever Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (WSJ/THE) College Rankings, which were released this week. The new ranking system assesses education, graduate outcomes, and the student experience to evaluate colleges across four areas: “Capacity” for teaching, “Capability” for engaging students, “Credibility” in terms of producing strong outcomes, and “Community.”
The Gustavus ranking of 144 is out of 1,061 institutions measured, which includes public and private colleges and universities of varying size. The College is third among Minnesota private colleges behind Carleton and Macalester.

The WSJ/THE rankings were created to emphasize student experience and outcomes, a departure from traditional college measurements, which focus largely on an institution’s financial resources and reputation in the marketplace.

Overall, the methodology looks at resources (30 percent), engagement (20 percent), outcomes (40 percent), and environment (10 percent) to assign each college its ranking.

Gustavus garnered particularly strong scores in the engagement category, with student engagement at 88.7, student recommendation at 88.1, and student interaction at 91.0. The outcomes section included high marks for graduation rate (90.5) and graduate salary (84.0).

“At Gustavus, we pair students with talented faculty members who take a personal interest in their development both inside and outside the classroom,” Associate Vice President and Dean of Admission Richard Aune said. “The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings affirm that our focus on the student experience leads to great outcomes after graduation.”

To gather data for the rankings, the WSJ/THE team compiled information from the U.S. government, the Elsevier bibliometric dataset, and surveys of students and academics conducted by Times Higher Education. To learn more about the WSJ/THE methodology, visit the Times Higher Education website.


Article Courtesy of gustavus.edu
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