National Recognitions

Mount Union has consistently fared well in national rankings, appearing in U.S. News and World Report’s annual listing of the best colleges and universities for 20 consecutive years.  This year, U.S. News and World Report ranked Mount Union in the top 10 of the Midwest Regional Colleges category, which includes institutions in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. In addition to being ranked 10th among Midwest regional colleges, Mount Union also was cited as an A-Plus School for B Students in the Midwest Regional Colleges category.

In addition, Mount Union was recently tapped as one of the best colleges and universities in the nation by Forbes, which ranked the University 325th among America’s top 650 public and private undergraduate colleges and universities.  This ranking thus places Mount Union in the top 12% of the 2,774 private and public colleges and universities nationally as identified by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.

Washington Monthly also has ranked the University of Mount Union, placing the institution among the top 100 liberal arts colleges and universities in the nation in its 2011 rankings.  Mount Union is ranked 98th among the 249 institutions that Washington Monthly included in the category.  This ranking measures how colleges and universities are meeting public obligations with regard to research, service and social mobility.

Other recent national recognitions include inclusion in the Princeton Review’s Guide to 311 Green Colleges and receipt of a bronze rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), making it the first institution in Ohio to receive a STARS rating. Also, for the fifth consecutive year, the University of Mount Union has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities.