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Fall/Winter 2017 Mary Washington Magazine

Home » Mary Wash Has Lots to Brag About!

Mary Wash Has Lots to Brag About!

November 10, 2017 by Laura Moyer

The honors keep rolling in, recognizing the University of Mary Washington for its excellence.

⎢The Princeton Review featured UMW among the top in the nation in its 2018 issue of “The Best 382 Colleges.”

⎢Money Magazine recognized UMW among the nation’s top colleges and ranked it ninth among Virginia public institutions.

⎢The Fiske Guide to Colleges recognized UMW as a “best buy” for the eighth time in as many years. Mary Washington is among 21 public and 26 private institutions recognized for delivering outstanding academics and the most reasonable prices.

⎢USA Today not only named UMW among the best schools in the nation, it also placed UMW at the No. 10 spot in its list of the “Top Ten in Virginia.”

⎢Zippia, a website dedicated to helping recent college graduates with their careers, placed UMW among Virginia’s top 10 colleges and universities for business programs.

⎢LendEDU rated UMW among the nation’s best for low debt and for value. In a ranking of 1,161 colleges and universities, LendEDU rated UMW 35th among public colleges and 82nd among colleges overall for the lowest student loan debt per borrower.

⎢U.S. News & World Report ranked UMW’s undergraduate program 17th among Southern regional universities, seventh among public regional universities in the same category, 11th in the “best colleges for veterans” list, and 62nd in the “best value” category in its Best Colleges 2018 guidebook.

⎢Washington Monthly, which rates schools based on their contribution to the public good, ranked UMW 21st in the “top master’s universities” category of the 2017 Washington Monthly College Rankings and 58th in the “best bang for the buck Southeast colleges” category.

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