Rosemont Ranked #13 as Top Performer on Social Mobility by U.S. News & World Report
For the eighth consecutive year, Rosemont College has again been included in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges Regional Universities North rankings and also ranked #13 as a Top Performer on Social Mobility for 2024. This is the fifth year in a row that Rosemont has been ranked in the top 15 on Social Mobility.
The annual U.S. News & World Report listing serves as a guide for prospective students and their families when evaluating colleges.
Rosemont is the only postsecondary institution in the Philadelphia region to be ranked in the top 25
“We are grateful to U.S. News & World Report for recognizing our commitment to social mobility,” said Jim Cawley, President of Rosemont College. “We don’t care what zip code our students grew up in. We believe all people have a right to a quality education that will empower them to find their voice and use it to have positive impact in their communities. This ranking affirms that when a student comes to Rosemont, it will change their life for the better.”
Regional Universities offer a full range of undergraduate programs and some master’s programs but few doctoral programs. U.S. News & World Report splits these rankings into four regions: North, South, Midwest, and West. The latest list assessed nearly 1,500 U.S. bachelor’s degree-granting institutions on 19 measures of academic quality.
This year’s rankings placed a greater emphasis on social mobility and outcomes for graduating college students, demonstrating the most significant methodological change in the rankings’ history.
More than 50% of an institution’s rank now comprises varying outcome measures related to success in enrolling and graduating students from all backgrounds with manageable debt and post-graduate success. In addition, five factors were removed: class size, faculty with terminal degrees, alumni giving, high school class standing and the proportion of graduates who borrow federal loans.
Learn more about the methodology here.
Rosemont has a long history of supporting societally marginalized populations to change lives through education, founded to serve as a women’s college at a time when women had very limited access to higher education. Over the course of the last few decades, Rosemont’s mission evolved to include lower-income communities of women and women of color. To further diversify the College, Rosemont transitioned to a coeducational institution in 2009. Today, Rosemont is a minority-majority institution, with 42% of students who are Pell eligible.
