Albertus Magnus College Again Included in Annual US News & World Report Rankings
Top 100 Ranking in the North Continues; College Lauded for Upward Social Mobility and Student Body Diversity
New Haven, Conn., September 12, 2022 – Albertus Magnus College is once again recognized
by US News & World Report in its 2022-2023 college rankings. For the fifth consecutive year, the values and
liberal arts-based College scored as a Top 100 Regional University in the North out
of the thousands of institutions surveyed. A major contributor to the College’s continued
Top 100 inclusion is its graduation rate, outperforming the publication’s predicted
graduation rate for Albertus by more than 20-percent.
The 2022-2023 rankings again feature Albertus as a “Top Performer in the Social Mobility”
category, for its success in graduating low income students who received Federal Pell
Grants. Albertus also was included in a new US News category, “Campus Ethnic Diversity,” which focuses on the likelihood of students
meeting and interacting with students from different racial and/or ethnic groups different
from than their own—in this new metric, Albertus ranks among the top 12-percent of
all institutions in the Regional Universities North category.
“Before being elected as President at Albertus, I spent nearly three decades working
in the college admissions world,” noted Albertus President, Marc M. Camille, Ed.D.
Throughout those years and continuing to today, I’ve observed the heightened frenzy
around the various college rankings. On the one hand, they serve one source of information
for potential college students and their families. However, college rankings cannot
answer whether a particular college is the right fit for an individual student. When
I review these latest US News rankings and where Albertus was singled out, I note the overall recognition for the
College and the particular focus on our graduation rate, success in educating students
from lower socioeconomic statuses, and our student body diversity. Outcomes, education
access, diversity as a marker of institutional excellence... these are among the important,
valuable factors for a right fit college. I’m proud to lead Albertus Magnus College,
and I’m pleased with the expanding external recognition of our time-tested, values-
and liberal arts-based education.”
The 2022-2023 US News accolades arrive shortly after the Albertus Class of 2026, whose members started
their classes on August 29 and continue the College’s growing demand for admission.
Of the 194 first-year and transfer students, 9-percent are enrolled in the College’s
Honors Program and 85-percent qualified for substantial merit-based scholarships.
More than half of the newest Albertus students come from minority backgrounds and
are the first in their family to pursue college degrees, while nearly the same percentage
will be competing as Fearless Falcons on one of the College’s 16 NCAA Division III
intercollegiate athletics teams.
About Albertus Magnus College
Founded in 1925, Albertus is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money, and The New York Times, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For ten consecutive years, at least 95% of Albertus graduates have attained employment or gone on to graduate studies within six months of completing their degrees. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and graduate program levels. Proud to enroll a student body where nearly half of its undergraduate students receive Federal Pell Grants and are first-generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, including BSN and Connecticut's first LPN-to-BSN; General Health Sciences; Interdisciplinary Studies; and Public Health.
Among its graduate offerings is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program, and it is just one of three schools to offer a Master of Science in Human Services. In 2025-26, Albertus is celebrating its historic 100th Anniversary and completing implementation of the Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, with a bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.