Hollins University is among the top 10% of institutions regionally and nationally that are considered “Best Colleges for the Money” by the college ratings website College Factual.
Hollins is ranked #21 out of 374 colleges and universities in the Southeast and #98 out of 1483 schools nationwide in that category, whose goal is to identify “colleges that are offering the best education quality for the best price. To come up with this ranking we measure the total average cost of the degree, and then compare the cost of the school to other schools of similar value.”
Academically, College Factual places Hollins in the top 1% of schools that are “Most Focused” in English Language and Literature and General English Literature; the top 5% in Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Romance Languages, and Fine and Studio Arts; the top 10% in General Biology, Classical Languages and Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and Dance; and the top 15% in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Mathematics, Natural Resources and Conservation, Drama and Theatre Arts, and General Psychology.
“In the context of majors rankings, focus is the percentage of undergraduates in the given degree at that school,” College Factual explains. “[T]he most focused rankings identify the schools that are likely to have a greater concentration on a particular major, based solely on the percentage of students enrolled at the college or university.”
College Factual describes itself as “a website created to help every student discover a college and career they love without debt holding them back.” It gathers data from both public and private sources, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education.
The complete 2020 rankings for Hollins can be found here.
