Where is Reed ranked among educational institutions?
Since 1995, Reed has made the decision to refuse to participate in the U.S. News and World Report annual survey, which is the basis of the publication’s annual ranking of colleges. The Reed community questions the notion that a college or a student’s college experience can be boiled down to a set of numbers and a ranking. Consider these statistics instead: • Based on a 2003 national survey of graduating seniors from 52 national, private liberal arts colleges, Reed’s graduating seniors were one and a half times as likely to be satisfied with their undergraduate education, and almost twice as likely to attend the same institution again. • Reed ranks first among all colleges and universities in the United States in the percentage of its graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in the biological sciences and third overall in all disciplines. Among liberal arts colleges, Reed is first in the nation in the percentage of future Ph.D.s in all disciplines. • A disproportionately large number of Reed
