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Wall Street Journal Recognizes Franklin & Marshall for Student Outcomes and Learning Opportunities
F&M was ranked among the best colleges in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal-College Pulse, which rates 584 eligible universities in the country on how well colleges set graduates up for financial success.
Among peer liberal arts colleges, F&M was ranked 16th highest.1 For nearly 240 years, F&M has embraced the power of the liberal arts, and today鈥檚
graduates launch into purpose-driven careers through a personalized liberal arts education
that pairs deep faculty mentorship with real-world experiences. F&M graduates have
a strong foundation of valuable skills widely desired by today鈥檚 top employers in
a rapidly changing labor market, including analytical and creative thinking; resilience
and adaptability; persuasive and consensus-building leadership; and emotional intelligence.
Among peer liberal arts colleges recognized for research, F&M was ranked 11th highest.2 Only 44 liberal arts colleges, including F&M, recently earned Carnegie鈥檚 鈥淩esearch
Colleges and Universities鈥� designation, reinforcing the College鈥檚 excellence in providing
its undergraduate students opportunities to work side-by-side with professors on impactful
research.
These accolades build on the momentum of earlier successes in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. F&M was recently ranked 35th among all national liberal arts colleges, and the College鈥檚 three-year range in U.S. News is its strongest in more than 20 years. U.S. News also ranked F&M 33rd nationally for best undergraduate teaching, and the College has been highlighted as a best value institution by both U.S. News and the Princeton Review. The latter also recently ranked F&M 24th nationally for most accessible professors.
鈥淔ranklin & Marshall has long been nationally recognized for its excellence in liberal arts education,鈥� F&M President Andrew Rich said. 鈥淭his fall鈥檚 rankings reinforce that excellence. We at F&M are proud of our history of building leaders at every level, ready to take their place as tomorrow鈥檚 global citizens who shape our world.鈥�
1 F&M defines peer liberal arts colleges as those institutions designated by the 2025 Carnegie Classifications as 鈥淪pecial Focus: Arts and Sciences.鈥�
2 F&M defines peer liberal arts colleges recognized for research as those institutions that received dual designations by the 2025 Carnegie Classification as both 鈥淪pecial Focus: Arts and Sciences鈥� and 鈥淩esearch Colleges and Universities.鈥�
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