Millsaps Earns Three New "Best" Rankings
Millsaps College earned three recent rankings that affirm its academic excellence and value.
- The Princeton Review, a nationally known education services company, named the College one of the best colleges in the Southeast. Millsaps made the list mainly because of its excellent academic programs, said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's senior vice president/publisher. The College is one of 135 institutions The Princeton Review recommends in the "Best in the Southeast" section of its website feature, "2012 Best Colleges: Region by Region," that is posted at PrincetonReview.com.
- Millsaps is the top-ranked college in Mississippi included in America's Best Colleges 2011, compiled by Forbes and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. Forbes.com based its rankings on five general categories: post graduate success, which evaluates alumni pay and prominence; student satisfaction, which includes professor evaluations and freshman to sophomore year retention rates; debt, which penalizes schools for high student debt loads and default rates; four-year graduation rate; and competitive awards, which rewards schools whose students win prestigious scholarships and fellowships.
- Fiske Guide to Colleges 2012 named Millsaps a "Best Buy" based on the quality of the College's academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance. Millsaps is the only college in Mississippi to be named a Best Buy.
