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For 16 consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" edition has ranked the University among the 10 top master's universities in the north, the survey's largest and most competitive region. In the 2010 edition, Scranton ranked seventh among "America's Best Colleges" in the North, and was also included in a new ranking of just 80 schools in the nation hailed for a “Strong Commitment to Teaching.” For two consecutive years, Scranton has ranked among just 77 “Top Up-and-Coming Schools,” in the nation.

The University's MBA program is among the top 15 in the nation for general management according to a national ranking of business schools published by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review.

For the past eight years, The Princeton Review has included Scranton among its “371 Best Colleges.”

Scranton is one of only 100 colleges and universities in the nation to be named to Templeton Foundation’s Honor Roll of Character-Building Colleges.

Scranton is among just 119 colleges in the nation named to the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement in 2008.

The University is listed among the 247 colleges in the nation included in the ninth edition of Barron’s “Best Buys in College Education.”

Scranton is the only university in Northeastern Pennsylvania to be listed in Kaplan/Newsweek’s publication How to Get into College; for two consecutive years Scranton has been listed as one of the nation’s “372 Most Interesting Schools.”

For five consecutive years, the University’s Kania School of Management has been included among the Princeton Review’s “Best 301 Business Schools.”

GI Jobs has listed Scranton among the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the nation as a Military Friendly School.

"Don’t go to Harvard, but to the business school at The University of Scranton. That’s where they are changing lives.” Peter F. Drucker, The “Father of Modern Management” Source: The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 2005.

Since 1972, 124 graduates of The University of Scranton have earned Fulbrights or other prestigious international fellowships.

In the last seven years, Scranton students earned four Truman Scholarships and seven Goldwater Scholarships.

In the past five years, five students were named to USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team.

Scranton’s average fall-to-fall freshman retention rate is 90%. The average rate, nationally, for selective Bachelor’s/Master’s institutions is 80%.

Scranton’s five-year graduation rate averages 77%. The average rate, nationally, for selective Bachelor’s/Master’s institutions is 66.7%.

Scranton has earned accreditation from 16 different accrediting agencies, including recognition by the nation’s most prestigious bodies in the fields of business and management, nursing, computer science, physical therapy, occupational therapy, chemistry and counseling.

The student-to-faculty ratio is 11:1, and the average class size is approximately 23.

78% of faculty members hold doctoral degrees and 64% are tenured. Members of the faculty hold degrees from 135 different universities in 30 countries on five continents.

More than 50% of students in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics participate in research; 45% of these students wrote a formal thesis and 38% of these students authored or coauthored a publication and/or conference paper.

Carrying on a Scranton tradition that spans over three decades, Scranton students from 59 different program areas have studied abroad in 60 countries. On average, more than 200 Scranton students study abroad each year.

The University’s NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletics program has produced 23 National Academic All-Americans since 1981. In addition, 13 graduates have earned NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships since 1974.

In the past two years, Scranton students have completed internships at more than 272 organizations in eight states. Students participate in credit and non-credit internship experiences.

The University’s Community Outreach Office has a roster of 2,850 students who perform well over 170,000 service hours each year.

Wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) services are available to nearly 100% of outdoor campus space and all on-campus residence halls, and in 60% of academic and administrative buildings.

Students from other countries have studied at the University for more than 50 years. In the past five years, the University has enrolled graduate and undergraduate students from 55 countries.

Ninety-six percent of the Class of 2008 was employed, pursuing graduate or professional studies, or volunteering within six months of graduation.

Of the 389 senior applicants to health professions schools over the last ten years, an average of 81% were accepted to schools of medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, podiatry and optometry.

In the past six years, nearly 300 Scranton graduates have received acceptance into at least 70 law schools throughout the United States. These include some of the nation’s most prestigious schools, such as the University of California at Berkeley, Boston College, Cornell University, Duke University, Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Since 1983, a total of 430 University of Scranton graduates have chosen full-time volunteer service over employment. A total of 224 of these Scranton graduates have volunteered with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.

A report issued by the University in 2008 showed that its annual economic impact on Northeastern Pennsylvania totals $332,052,578. The report is based on economic impact studies and formulas, including those used by the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania.

The University has constructed 25 new buildings, including a campus center, and renovated 38 others since 1984. A new, unified science center is slated for completion in the fall of 2011. In total, the University is investing more than $180 million in projects to transform its 56-acre campus.

In 2008, the University’s Small Business Development Center provided 562 clients with 3,488 hours of services to help them start, operate or expand their small businesses in Northeastern Pennsylvania counties.