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| PUC remains 10 for 10
By Landon Bennett
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For the tenth straight year, Pacific Union College continues to
rank in the top tier in U.S. News and World Report’s
annual edition of “America’s Best Colleges.” The
national magazine’s 2004 rankings place PUC as the number
two comprehensive college offering bachelor degrees in California.
It also places PUC in the top 10 among the 14 Western states.
Along with these overall standings, PUC ranks in the top tier for:
ethnic diversity, best value, student/faculty ratio, low debt ratio
and full-time faculty.
“The indicators include input measures that reflect a school's
student body, its faculty, and its financial resources and outcome
measures that signal how well the institution does its job of educating
students,” said Robert Morse, U.S. News editor.
The criteria used to measure academic quality include: acceptance
rate, alumni giving, faculty with Ph.D.'s, retention and graduation
rate, SAT/ACT scores, and student/faculty ratio.
Although the most recent America’s Best Colleges 2004 edition
was published in August, it reflects data from the 2002-2003 school
year.
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