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MC listed among U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 ‘Best Colleges’

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Sept. 13, 2021

U.S. News & World Report has again included Maryville College in its “2022 Best Colleges” guidebook’s regional rankings. Maryville College ranked fifth overall in the “2022 Best Regional Colleges – South” category.

This year marks the third time in recent years that Maryville College has been ranked among the five best in this category.

The regional college rankings include colleges that focus on undergraduate education but grant fewer than half their degrees in liberal arts disciplines. The rankings are split into four regions: North, South, Midwest and West. High Point University in North Carolina and Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas topped the list of southern colleges, which included 93 colleges total.

Maryville College also was ranked in several sub-categories of Southern colleges, including No. 5 in the “2022 Best Value Schools – South” category – up from No. 7 last year. To determine which colleges and universities offer the best value for students, U.S. News & World Report factors academic quality and cost after accounting for total expenses and financial aid.

In the category of “Best Undergraduate Teaching” in the South, Maryville College ranked sixth overall. Based on a survey conducted in the first half of 2021, the schools on the list received the most votes from top college administrators for the schools’ commitment to teaching students in a high-quality manner.

Maryville College was listed among the “2022 Top Performers on Social Mobility.” Colleges on the list include those that are most successful at advancing social mobility by enrolling and graduating large proportions of disadvantaged students awarded with Pell Grants (the vast majority of these federal grants are awarded to students whose adjusted gross family incomes are under $50,000).

“While we acknowledge the wide-ranging awareness of U.S. News’s rankings, our greatest measures of success at Maryville College will always be the impactful learning experiences in which our students are engaged, and our countless alumni who are making a difference in the world,” said Maryville College President Bryan F. Coker. “We celebrate U.S. News’s acknowledgement of our success on various key measures, and I continue to encourage everyone to keep an eye on Maryville College in the coming years.”

The 37th edition of “Best Colleges” assesses 1,466 U.S. bachelor’s degree-granting institutions on 17 measures of academic quality. U.S. News surveyed schools in the spring and summer of 2021 for this year’s rankings. The most complete version of the new rankings, data, tables and lists, as well as Maryville College’s profile, is available at usnews.com/best-colleges.

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Knoxville, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. Today, our 10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”