Ramapo Profile: Accolades
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U.S. News & World Report
In the 2010 edition of "America's Best Colleges," released by U.S. News & World Report, Ramapo College was ranked number 5 in the north in the Top Public Universities-Master's category. This is the third year the college received the distinction. In addition, Ramapo College climbed the ranking ladder to number 27, up from 29, in U.S. News's comprehensive listing of Best Universities-Master's in the north.
Institutions ranked in the Universities-Master's category provide a full range of undergraduate and master's programs. The 572 institutions included in this category were ranked by region-north, south, midwest and west.
U.S. News & World Report uses 7 categories to rank the academic quality of the institutions profiled. They include peer assessment, retention rate, faculty resources, class size, selectivity of the student body, graduation rates and alumni giving rates.
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Ramapo College of New Jersey is listed in the December 2008 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine as among the “100 Best Values in Public Colleges” for 2009. This is the fourth consecutive year Ramapo College has been included in the “100 Best Values in Public Colleges.” The college was ranked #66 in the country, and one of two colleges in New Jersey in the Top 100.
Kiplinger’s studied more than 500 public four-year colleges and universities, using measures including the percentage of freshmen scoring 600 or higher on the verbal and math components of the SAT, student/faculty ratio, admission rates and graduation rates. In addition, schools were ranked based on cost before and after financial aid was factored in, the average cost for a student with need after subtracting grants, the average cost for a student without need after subtracting non-need based grants, the average percentage of need met by aid and the average debt a student accumulates before graduation.
The Princeton Review
Ramapo College of New Jersey is one of the nation's best value undergraduate institutions according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company features the school in the new 2008 edition of its book, America's Best Value Colleges. The guide profiles 165 colleges chosen for their excellent academics, generous financial aid packages and/or relatively low costs of attendance. In its narrative profile on Ramapo College in the book, The Princeton Review's editors commend the school for "achieving a level of success in 37 years that some older colleges have yet to grasp."
The Princeton Review selected the schools for the book based on data it obtained from administrators at more than 650 colleges during the 2005-06 academic year, and its surveys of students attending the schools. The publication considers over 30 factors to identify thier 'best value' colleges. They cover four areas: Academics, Tuition GPA (the sticker price minus average amount students receive in scholarships and grants), Financial Aid (how well colleges meet students' financial need), and Student Borrowing.
The Templeton Guide
The John Templeton Foundation has named Ramapo College of New Jersey to its Honor Roll for Character-Building Colleges, which recognizes institutions that emphasize character development as an integral aspect of the undergraduate experience. Colleges must exhibit a strong and inspiring campus-wide ethos that articulates the expectations of personal and civic responsibility in all dimensions of college life. Selection criteria including:
- The significant involvement and participation of faculty in forming and shaping the ideals and standards of personal and civic responsibility
- Evidence that a wide variety of programs exists to prepare students for lives of personal and civic responsibility
- The integration of personal and civic responsibility standards and activities into the core curriculum or areas of academic study
- External recognition or honors
- Procedures to assess effectiveness of campus-wide character-development programs
