Scranton Ranked for Student Engagement, Outcomes

The University of Scranton is among the “Top U.S. Colleges” in a ranking by The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education.
The University of Scranton placed No. 104 for student engagement; No. 195 for student outcomes; and No. 232 “overall” in The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranking of the “Top U.S. Colleges.”
The University of Scranton placed No. 104 for student engagement; No. 195 for student outcomes; and No. 232 “overall” in The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranking of the “Top U.S. Colleges.”

The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranked The University of Scranton No. 232 among the 801 “Top U.S. Colleges” included in its 2020 listing. Scranton’s highest scores were in the area of student engagement, where it placed at No. 104 in the nation. Scranton also ranked at No. 195 for student outcomes, scoring well for salaries of graduates, adjusted for student, location and other characteristics, and graduation rates.

The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education ranking is based on an analysis of 15 performance metrics in the categories of resources, student engagement, outcomes and campus environment. The student engagement portion of their analysis is based on The U.S. Student Survey, which queried more than 170,000 current college and university students on a range of issues relating directly to their college experience, such as interaction with faculty and other students, and whether they would recommend their schools to others. Student engagement represented 20 percent of the overall ranking score.

Outcomes, which represented 40 percent of the overall ranking score, looked at graduation rate, academic reputation, “value added” to graduate salary and “value added” to the loan repayment rate. The “value added” portions of the analysis applied statistical modeling to adjust for student, location and other characteristics in order to measure the impact the school has on the salary and loan repayment rates of its graduates.

The ranking also measured resources invested in instruction and student services (30 percent of the overall ranking), which included the finance cost per student, faculty/student ratio and research papers published per faculty member, and the learning environment (10 percent of the overall ranking), which includes student and staff diversity, among other factors.

The ranking was published by The Wall Street Journal Sept. 4.

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