Undergraduate Rankings of WUSTL by News Media

U.S.News & World Report

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS – NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES The most recent undergraduate rankings were announced by U.S. News on August 22, 2008, for the 2008-09 academic year.
U.S. News Undergraduate Categories	2008-09	2007-08
Overall Undergraduate Programs	12*	12*
Alumni giving	10*	11
Economic diversity	top 25	top 25
Faculty resources	9	7
Financial resources	5	4*
Freshmen returning for sophomore year	97%	97%
Graduation & retention	15	17
High school counselor ranking	20*	npr
Need-based financial aid awards	26	24
Selectivity	6*	6
Undergraduate research/creative projects	top 33	npr
Best value (Great schools, great prices)	22	18
Olin School of Business	13*	12*
Finance	14	15*
School of Engineering & Applied Science	38*	43*
Biomedical engineering	16*	16*
* – tie npr – not previously ranked

Newsweek Magazine
	Ranking	Year
Top 100 Global Universities – International list	33	2006
Top 100 Global Universities – US-only list	23	2006


The Atlantic Monthly
	Ranking	Year
Overall undergraduate program	11	2003-04
Faculty research productivity (worldwide)	14	2006

Rolling Stone
	Ranking	Year
Schools that Rock (ranks both WUSTL and St. Louis)	6	2005

Seventeen Magazine
	Ranking	Year
“The 50 Coolest Colleges” (undergraduate only)	7	2002-03

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
	Ranking	Year
Black enrollment – nation’s top 50 universities	7	2003-04
Integrating African-American undergraduates	4	2002-03
Black student college graduation rate	8	2006
Comparative graduation rates of blacks and whites	1	2002-03
Five-year progress in black faculty appointments	1	2002-03

Black Enterprise
	Ranking	Year
Top 50 Colleges for African Americans	42	2006

Reform Judaism
	Ranking	Year
Private universities most chosen by Jewish students	14	2006

Key:

* – tie

Last update: September 2, 2008

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