University of Minnesota Morris Ranking Profile

The University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) is an undergraduate public liberal arts campus of the University of Minnesota. It is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of North Central Accreditation. The UMM Teacher Education Program is accredited by the Minnesota Board of Teaching (BOT) and by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

Ranking Profile:

- UMM is ranked 144th among National Liberal Arts Colleges by US News (2012).

- U.S. News ranks Morris a “Best College” in the National Liberal Arts Colleges category (2011). Morris and the California Maritime Academy were the only public schools to be named to the U.S. News Best Colleges: Top 100 Most Students Studying Abroad list. Institutions were ranked based on academic assessments by peer institution administrators, student retention, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, alumni giving, graduation rates, and, for the first time, assessments by high school counselors.

- Parents and Colleges, a resource for parents of college bound students, has named the University of Minnesota, Morris as a Top 10 Best Value Public University in a nationwide ranking (2010).

- The University of Minnesota, Morris is ranked among the top 100 colleges nationally as a best value in the 2009 Kiplinger Best Values in Public Colleges exclusive survey.

- The University of Minnesota, Morris is among only 11 Minnesota colleges and universities named as “exemplary” by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) in its “report card” on sustainability in higher education (2008).

- The University of Minnesota, Morris has been designated as “Best in the Midwest” in The Princeton Review's 2008 survey of college students.

- The University of Minnesota, Morris is the only Minnesota school to make the Forbes 100 Best College Buys list. The rankings for the 100 Best Buys list were calculated by dividing each institution's overall quality score by its average net (after allowance for scholarship grants) tuition rate from the 2003-2004 through 2006-2007 academic years.

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