Vaughn Maintains Top Regional Ranking, Noted for Social Mobility and Listed in the Top Engineering Colleges for 2022
FLUSHING, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For the twelfth year in a row, Vaughn College has been ranked among the top colleges. The U.S. News & World Report survey results released September 12 recognized Vaughn in its 2022 survey of the best colleges in the regional North. The rankings serve as a guide for prospective students and their families, evaluating 1,500 colleges and universities on up to 17 measures of academic quality.
"Our vision: 'To change the world, one student at a time, with a transformational education that provides a lifetime of learning,' is our constant guide to providing students with a quality education that prepares them for a professional life of success," said Vaughn College President Dr. Sharon B. DeVivo. "The top ranking in this category for multiple years is evidence of our continued success."
Vaughn was also ranked in the top 20 institutions for "Social Mobility" in the regional North category. This ranking reinforces the findings of a study by The Equality of Opportunity Project, reported in The New York Times, recognizing Vaughn as the number one institution in the country in economic mobility—the best at moving students from the bottom in income levels to the top.
The engineering program at Vaughn continues to move up in the rankings and the College is recognized for the first time in the top engineering category at 151.
"It is incredibly gratifying for us to make the top engineering college list. Our faculty work extremely hard to build on our successful engineering and technology foundation which includes a mechatronic engineering degree, one of only four ABET-accredited mechatronic programs in the country, and we recently added a new degree in computer engineering. With four engineering degrees as well as many programs focused on career pathways, we are keenly focused on graduates' success," said DeVivo.
Vaughn was also ranked number one for the highest ethnic diversity in the region as well as one of the top for economic diversity of students.
U.S. News & World Report began its annual rankings of American colleges and universities in 1983. To calculate the rankings, U.S. News focuses on academic quality and places emphasis on outcome measures– including graduation rates, retention rates, graduate indebtedness and social mobility. Outcomes are the mostly highly weighted ranking factor, contributing 40% to each school's overall score. See the entire U.S. News & World Report ranking online here.
VAUGHN COLLEGE: Founded in 1932, Vaughn College is a private, nonprofit four-year college that enrolls more than 1,500 students in master's, bachelor's and associate degree programs in engineering, technology, management and aviation on its main campus in New York City and online. The student-faculty ratio of 15 to 1 ensures a highly personalized learning environment. Eighty-eight percent of Vaughn College graduates are placed in professional positions, 75 percent in a related field, or choose to continue their education within one year of graduation. In recent years, outside of the pandemic, Vaughn's outcomes for students typically average more than 95 percent and have been 99 percent, 98 percent and 97 percent for the three years prior. The institution serves many first-generation college students and is recognized by the US Department of Education as a Hispanic-Serving Institution. In a study conducted by The Equality of Opportunity Project, and reported in The New York Times, Vaughn was ranked number one in upward mobility nationwide. For more information on Vaughn College, please visit http://www.vaughn.edu.
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