Scranton Counted Among Best Colleges in America

For the 16th consecutive
About 90 percent of parents and students rated “preparing for a fulfilling career” as a very- or extremely-valuable benefit of a college education, according to a MONEY/Barnes and Noble college survey. MONEY magazine accounted for that statistic among the 27 factors evaluated for its 2017 ranking of the nation’s “Best Colleges For Your Money.” Scranton ranked No. 206 among the 711 U.S. colleges listed that MONEYdetermined to deliver the “best value.”
Scranton was among the 26 Jesuit universities, and was the highest ranked school in Northeastern Pennsylvania, in the list published online in July. Read the full article here.
The University of Scranton’s online Master of Accountancy degree program was ranked No.1 in the nation in a newly published list of top accounting programs by Best Colleges, an independent online higher education resource.
The Best Colleges website highlights Scranton’s innovative MAcc Bridge Program, which enables students who have a non-accounting bachelor’s degree to efficiently gain the necessary
Forbes ranked The University of Scranton among “America’s Best Value Colleges” in its 2017 list of just “300 schools that deliver the best bang for the tuition buck based on tuition costs, school quality, post-grad earnings, student debt and graduation success.” This is the 10th consecutive year that Forbes ranked Scranton among America’s “best values” in college education,
Scranton, ranked No. 249, was among only 20 colleges in Pennsylvania and 19 Jesuit universities ranked. Scranton was the only college in Northeast Pennsylvania listed. Read the full article here.