Albertus Magnus College Recognized for Third Straight Year by US News & World Report
Honored in Numerous Categories in College’s 95th Anniversary Year
New Haven, Conn., September 14, 2020 – Albertus Magnus College is once again in the educational spotlight, this time in US News & World Report’s 2021 college rankings, included as a Top 100 Regional University in the North and featured among the top performers in four additional categories: Best Value; Best for Veterans; Top Performers on Social Mobility; and a new category – Best Undergraduate Teaching. As a Best Value school, Albertus Magnus was praised for both academic quality and cost. In the Best for Veterans ranking, the College was noted for its affordability, building on its designation as a Purple Heart College, a Top 10 Military Friendly School, and a Military Friendly Spouse School that welcomes and supports those returning to college after serving our country in the military. As a top Social Mobility College, Albertus Magnus received accolades for its success in graduating low income students who receive Federal Pell Grants. For Best Undergraduate Teaching, the faculty is applauded for its unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching.
“These consistent external accolades in recent years demonstrate the growing awareness of and importance in the values- and liberal arts-based education offered by Albertus Magnus and how it prepares our graduates for a lifetime of professional success and civic engagement,” said President Marc M. Camille, Ed.D. “To once again be recognized – both in these unprecedented times and in our 95th Anniversary Year -- is particularly affirming and special.”
The US News recognition follow’s the College’s recent inclusion among Money’s 2020 Best Colleges in America, ranked by value.
Succeeding 2019’s largest ever incoming class, the recently arrived 200 members of the fall 2020 first-year and transfer class represent the second largest class in Albertus Magnus College’s history and were selected from an all-time record total of more than 1,750 applicants, an increase of 15-percent over the previous year’s then record total.
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.