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U.S. News & World Report:
“Best Colleges”

• Top 100 among the country’s national liberal arts colleges��
• Top 25 in the United States for social mobility
• No. 2 for alumni satisfaction as measured by annual giving
• No. 1 for the highest proportion of classes under 20 students (100 percent) and the lowest proportion of classes with more than 50 students (0 percent)

The Princeton Review

• High ratings for academics (91), quality of life (93), and faculty��accessibility��(98)
• Top 15 percent of American four-year colleges
• No. 2 nationwide among “Colleges with Great Financial Aid”
• No. 3 for “Happiest Students,”��No. 4 for “Most Religious Students,”��No. 8 for “Friendliest Students,” and��No. 9 for “Most Beautiful Campus”
• Results from student survey include: 1) Academics are “difficult, mind blowing, extremely enjoyable, and intensely interesting.” 2)��The Catholic faith is dear to the students, many of whom “attend Mass daily.” 3)��The College offers “culture of casual kindness,” where students are “friendly and comfortable with each other” and “always willing to have a good conversation.”

The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College

• One of only 15��recommended��colleges and universities in the United States
• “Impressive intellectual rigor that is matched by a commitment to orthodox Catholicism.”
• “The first in a wave of new Catholic colleges born from the crisis of Catholic identity in American Catholic higher education.”
• “The only Catholic college in America that teaches exclusively from [the] classic works of Western civilization.”

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Association of College Trustees and Alumni����

• Top 2 percent of country’s major colleges and universities
• One of six colleges in the U.S. to receive a perfect score for ensuring that students study seven key areas: composition, literature, American history, foreign language, mathematics, science, and economics.
• Highest rating��for strength of curriculum��

USA Today:��“The 10 Best Roman Catholic Colleges”

• “Devoted to providing a strong education while being rooted in the Roman Catholic faith”
• “Great student to faculty ratio”
• “Excellent graduation and freshman retention rates”
• “Diverse student body that comes from states all across the nation”
• Also listed among Best 10 Colleges for the Money

National Catholic Register

• One of only 38��“faithfully Catholic colleges and universities nationwide” chosen for the “Catholic Identity College Guide”
• Perfect marks for all 10 measures of campus fidelity and moral climate

Cool Colleges

• “The best college class I ever attended, undergraduate or graduate, was at ������ϲ�ֱ�� Aquinas College.”
• “[Students] backed up their comments with evidence and careful, logical arguments.”
• “I shall remember this class, where I was but a guest, for the rest of my life.”
• “A rigorous great books curriculum”

Kiplinger:��“Best Values in Private Colleges”

• No. 1��among all colleges and universities
• Only Catholic school to be named to the Top 20
• Rankings based on outstanding academics and affordable cost

Washington Monthly

• Among top 100 American liberal arts colleges for��“contribution to the public good”
• Top 50 for “Best Bang for the Buck” in the Western United States