Lewis-Clark State College continues to be one of the higher ranked public institutions in the West, according to U.S. News & World Report.
In the magazine’s annual Best Colleges rankings, LCSC moved up to Number 5 among the Top Public Schools in the West, a category that includes everything west of Oklahoma and the Dakotas. LCSC was tied for sixth a year ago and has been consistently ranked in the Top 10 for years. For the second straight year, LCSC was listed Number 23 in colleges in the West overall rankings, which include both public and privates colleges.
The ranking is for colleges that focus on undergraduate education but award fewer than half of their degrees in the liberal arts.
U.S. News & World Report rankings are based on data collected from each college in as many as 15 areas of academic excellence, including graduation and retention rates; undergraduate academic reputation; faculty resources; student selectivity; financial resources; graduate rate performance; and alumni giving rate.
LCSC was one of more than 1,800 colleges and universities to submit data to be included in the rankings, which started in 1983 to provide college-bound students information on schools and to make comparisons.
