Hollins University is one of the top liberal arts colleges and universities in the country, according to the publication, 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges.
U.S. News released this year’s rankings online on September 9.
Hollins is ranked number 108 in the category, Best National Liberal Arts Colleges. It is tied with Hampden-Sydney College as the fourth highest-ranked liberal arts college in Virginia, behind Washington and Lee University, the University of Richmond, and Virginia Military Institute.
Hollins is also among the nation’s ten highest-ranked women’s colleges.
U.S. News states that it calculates its rankings using “quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality.
“The indicators we use to capture academic quality fall into a number of categories: assessment by administrators at peer institutions, retention of students, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, alumni giving, graduation rate performance and, for National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges only, high school counselor ratings of colleges.”
For more information, visit https://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
