Winter 1997
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Winter 1997 |
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Rose-Hulman is listed as one of America's best colleges in guides that are popular resources for high-school students and their families. Rose-Hulman's high admissions standards, academic reputation and faculty quality are cited in recent guide editions and Money magazine. Money ranked Rose-Hulman as one of the nation's best values in higher education. Rose-Hulman ranked eighth among colleges that specialize in science and technical education. The magazine also ranked Rose-Hulman among the nation's top 150 best buys in overall value. The 1997 ranking marked the fourth consecutive year that Rose-Hulman has been listed in the magazine's top 10 best values for science and technical education. Here's what other national college guide publications had to say about Rose-Hulman: "An emphasis on undergraduate teaching by professors, rather than pure research, ensures personal attention.....As for the job outlook, Rose-Hulman may have the best ratio of recruiters to students in the nation.....Rose-Hulman looks to have assured itself a future as strong as its well-engineered past." —- "The Fiske Guide to Colleges," A Guide to the Best and Most Interesting Colleges in America, edited by Edward Fiske, former education editor of The New York Times "The colleges selected for this book routinely attract and admit an above-average share of the nation's high-achieving students." —Peterson's Competitive Colleges Guide "Rose-Hulman is rated as a highly competitive college in regard to its admissions standards," — Barron's Profiles of American Colleges For the first time in several years, U.S. News & World Report did not rank engineering programs at colleges and universities in its annual "America's Best Colleges" issue. Last year, the magazine ranked Rose-Hulman second among schools that focused on undergraduate engineering education and did not award a Ph.D in engineering.
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