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(08/10/09)
Millsaps College is the best college in the state of Mississippi based on educational quality, student experiences and achievement of students, according to Forbes.com. It is the second time Millsaps received the state’s top recognition by Forbes.
The second-annual ranking of America’s Best Colleges 2009, compiled by Forbes and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, ranks 600 undergraduate institutions based on educational quality, student experiences and achievement of students.
The College also received accolades as one of America’s Best College Buys. This designation recognizes colleges that are a “high-value” investment.
The CCAP gathered data from a variety of sources. They based 25 percent of the rankings on student evaluations of courses and instructors; 25 percent on post-graduate success; 20 percent on the estimated average student debt after four years; and the reminder on the four-year graduation rates and the number of students or faculty who received nationally competitive awards like Rhodes Scholarships or Nobel Prizes.
This is the second year that Forbes has ranked colleges. Out of the 600 undergraduate institutions surveyed across the country, Millsaps ranked first in Mississippi and No. 101 overall in Forbes’ list of the best colleges in the country. Other schools in the state on the list were Mississippi College, Mississippi State University, the University of Mississippi and the University of Southern Mississippi. The full list of 600 institutions is posted at Forbes.com.
Recently, Millsaps College was named one of “The Best 371 Colleges” by The Princeton Review and received special recognition as one of the Top 20 colleges for “Lots of Race/Class Interaction.” The college was also one of only 24 private colleges nationwide and the only college in Mississippi named a “Best Buy” in the 2010 edition of Fiske’s Top Financial Finds on the College Tuition Market.
At Millsaps, more than 90 percent of students receive some financial aid through an aggressive awards program for merit, leadership and service scholarships and institutional, federal and state need-based programs.
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