FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CUAA RANKED AMONG TOP MIDWEST BACCALAUREATE COLLEGES
ANN ARBOR, Mich., August 31, 2007- Concordia University- Ann Arbor (CUAA) has been ranked 40th among institutions in the category of “Midwest Baccalaureate Colleges” in the 2008 university edition of U.S. News and World Report. Concordia was ranked 50th in 2006 and 44th in 2007.
U.S. News uses various measures to capture the dimensions of academic quality at each college. These measures fall into seven broad categories: peer assessment; graduation and retention rate; faculty resources (for example, class size); student selectivity (for example, average admission test scores of incoming students); financial resources; alumni giving; and, only for national universities and liberal arts colleges, graduation rate performance. For more information and access to the complete listing please visit the
U.S. News website at
www.usnews.com.
Concordia University – Ann Arbor is a liberal arts institution of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. With a distinctly Christian environment and an academic community dedicated to excellence, CUAA offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. CUAA is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA) and by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). CUAA is listed as one of
America’s Best Private Colleges®. For more information on CUAA, visit:
www.cuaa.edu.
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