Top 25 Northern University School again!

2006 U.S. News and World Report Rankings Released

August 19, 2005, Staten Island, NY….For the second year in a row, Wagner College ranked among the top 25 schools of the 2006 U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges - Northern Universities” category and was cited twice in its "Programs To Look For" section. This area of the magazine’s annual rankings cites an academic program that “leads to student success in colleges.”

“We are extremely proud of our U.S. News and World Report rankings,” Wagner President Richard Guarasci said. “And we believe that these designations, chosen by our peers, confirm the fact that our faculty, staff and Trustees have chosen the right path for Wagner College and its future.”

Wagner was chosen for two prestigious "Programs to Look For" categories and is the only New York City institution is included in either category. They are:

• “First Year Experiences”– Wagner was selected as a school that has built first-year seminars or other academic programs into the curriculum that encourages interaction between students and faculty not found in traditional college settings.

Other recipients in this category include Princeton and Duke Universities.

• “Learning Communities” – Wagner was selected as a school in whose learning communities students “take two or more linked courses as a group” and interact more closely with professors and other students than traditional teaching settings.

Other recipients in this category include the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

“We are honored to receive these spectacular rankings from U.S. News and World Report and believe they reflect positively on our faculty for creating and implementing a student-centered, community-linked, interdisciplinary First Year Program,” Wagner Provost Devorah Lieberman said.

For the 2006 U.S. News and World Report “America’s Best Colleges” edition, college presidents, provosts and admissions deans from across the country chose the top schools in a variety of national rankings.