Eleven years after awarding its first bachelor’s degree to a female graduate, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is listed among the “100 Best Colleges” in the October 2007 issue of CosmoGirl magazine.

The list, created using baseline data provided by the Princeton Review, identifies America’s top co-ed colleges and universities based on what experts recommended as the best all-around criteria for young women: small class sizes, great job placement programs, leadership opportunities, prominent faculty and strong women’s sports teams, according to CosmoGirl’s editors.

Also helping Rose-Hulman cause is the fact that the college offers two of the top five most attractive career fields for women -- computer science (No. 1) and chemical engineering (No. 5) -- according to the magazine’s editorial staff.

Rose-Hulman also ranks third nationally in the percentage of biomedical engineering bachelor's degrees being awarded to women, according to a report in the October issue of the American Society of Engineering Education’s Prism magazine.

CosmoGirl has been publishing its Best Colleges list for the past five years. The list was expanded to include 100 institutions this year.

“We were a little bit pickier. We are prouder of it, too, this year because of that,” stated Deputy Editor Michelle Lee Ribeiro. “We can really stand by this recommendation list.”

Rose-Hulman joined Indiana University and DePauw University as the only Indiana colleges on this year’s CosmoGirl list. Other colleges on the prestigious list include Duke University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Princeton University, Stanford University and Yale.

CosmoGirl boasts a circulation of about 1.35 million, with a target audience of young women from 16 to about 20 years old – high school juniors and seniors, and college freshmen and sophomores.

CosmoGirl’s “100 Best Colleges” list is available at www.cosmogirl.com/lifeadvice/100_best_colleges/college-guide-2007.