By Anne Cantrell MSU NEWS SERVICE
BOZEMAN – Montana State University is once again ranked among the top universities in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2020 annual college guide and rankings released Sept. 9.
In U.S. News’
“Best Colleges 2020” guidebook, MSU tied for 119th place in the top public
schools category. MSU also tied for 246th overall in the best
national universities category, which includes both public and private institutions.
Rankings are
based on several key measures of academic quality, including social mobility,
first-year student retention and graduation of students, expert opinion,
faculty resources, student excellence, financial resources, alumni giving and
graduation rate performance, which is a comparison between the proportion of
students expected to graduate and the proportion who did graduate.
MSU is the
largest research entity in Montana, with research expenditures at MSU topping
$100 million for five years in a row.
