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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno State outranked aggregate Ivy League schools successful Washington Monthly’s 2024 yearly list of apical universities.
According to the list, Fresno State ranks 22 retired of the nation's apical 442 universities. This year's ranking puts Fresno State up of Brown, Dartmouth, and Carnegie Mellon; each Ivy League schools.
Washington Monthly says their ranking strategy is "based connected what [colleges] bash for the country," ranking four-year wide arts institutions upon their societal mobility, research, and promotion of nationalist service.
Social mobility is Fresno State's strongest suit, ranking 9 retired of 442 universities successful the country. According to the university, astir 60% of much than 6,000 students who graduated successful May were first-generation students whose parents bash not person bachelor’s degrees.
Fresno State, which has annually provided over 1 cardinal hours of service to the assemblage for 15 years successful a row, ranked 51 retired of 442 successful promotion of nationalist service.
The schoolhouse says it is 1 of 25 institutions to person the archetypal Carnegie Leadership for Public Purpose classification that recognizes schools committed to the pursuit of nationalist goods similar justice, equity, diversity, and liberty. Fresno State is the lone nationalist instauration successful California to person the designation.
Washington Monthly ranked Fresno State 367 retired of 442 successful research, but successful the past year, the assemblage says implicit $70 cardinal successful grants and contracts was awarded to enactment research. The schoolhouse says their committedness was highlighted successful 2022 aft earning an R2 designation arsenic a “Doctoral University – High Research Activity” by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
