Fresno State rises in Washington Monthly ranking of best national universities

Fresno State improved its ranking among the champion nationalist colleges and universities, rising to No. 22 successful Washington Monthly’s 2024 yearly list of apical universities, compared to No. 26 the erstwhile year.

The assemblage besides ranked No. 13 successful the Best Bang for the Buck: West class for however good it helps non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees astatine affordable prices. About 64% of Fresno State students are the archetypal successful their families to be college.

In Monthly’s caller ranking of “America’s Best and Worst Colleges for Master’s Degrees,” Fresno State ranked No. 5 for champion successful societal work. 

“Our committedness to our talented students remains unwavering,” said Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval. “At Fresno State, we prioritize meaningful pupil experiences done community-engaged teaching, probe and assistance to elevate the prime of beingness of our students, their families, our Valley and the world. I’m profoundly arrogant of our field mission, and I americium excited for what’s to travel arsenic we presumption ourselves arsenic leaders of societal and economical alteration successful the portion and nation.” 

Washington Monthly has published its database of apical schools for the past 20 years with what it calls “a antithetic benignant of assemblage ranking,” calling attraction to colleges based connected their publication to the nationalist bully — societal mobility, nationalist work and probe — not conscionable connected prestige oregon wealth. This year’s rankings were published connected Aug. 26. 

This is the ninth consecutive twelvemonth Fresno State has ranked successful the apical 40 nationalist universities among 442 full – and the ninth consecutive twelvemonth Fresno State has been the highest-ranked field successful the California State University system. At No. 22, Fresno State ranks alongside each 8 Ivy League schools and backstage universities similar Stanford, MIT and Duke. 

Here are immoderate ways Fresno State showed its committedness to education, probe and interaction connected the community: 

• For the 15th consecutive year, the Fresno State assemblage provided over 1 cardinal hours of service to the community. 
• The California Department of Health Care Access and Information awarded a $5.25 cardinal grant to the Master of Social Work programme astatine Fresno State to grow its capableness to nutrient qualified wellness attraction professionals. 
• Fresno State received a astir $8 cardinal assistance from the Department of Education to instrumentality a programme that transforms advising to summation the occurrence of each students, particularly number and low-income students.
• The assemblage was awarded much than $70 cardinal successful grants and contracts to enactment probe implicit the past year. Fresno State earned R2 designation arsenic a “Doctoral University – High Research Activity” by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education successful 2022, highlighting a important committedness to increasing probe activities.
• About 60% of the much than 6,000 students who graduated this past May were first-generation students whose parents bash not person bachelor’s degrees. For many, similar the President’s Graduate Medalist Angel Rojas, the opportunities astatine Fresno State inspired him to prosecute a doctoral degree.  

In June, Fresno State received a 4.5-star standing connected a 5-star standard successful Money’s 2024 Best Colleges standing published connected June 12.

Fresno State is 1 of the 25 U.S. colleges and universities to person the archetypal Carnegie Leadership for Public Purpose classification. Of the 25 institutions to person this designation successful the inaugural 2024 cycle, Fresno State is the lone nationalist instauration successful California; nary different California State University oregon University of California institutions were selected. The classification recognizes institutions that person committed to campus-wide efforts to beforehand enactment successful pursuit of nationalist goods similar justice, equity, diverseness and liberty. 

Washington Monthly Top 30 National Universities:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Stanford University
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. Harvard University   
5. Princeton University
6. Columbia University, successful the City of NY 
7. Duke University
8. Cornell University 
9. California Institute of Technology 
10. University of Notre Dame 
11. Yale University
12. University of Wisconsin-Madison
13. University of California, Berkeley
14. Johns Hopkins University 
15. Georgetown University 
16. Florida International University
17. University of Washington, Seattle      
18. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor      
19. University of North Carolina astatine Chapel Hill       
20. University of California, Los Angeles
21. Vanderbilt University              
22. California State University, Fresno            
23. Washington University successful St. Louis               
24. University of California, San Diego
25. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
26.  University of California, Davis           
27. University of Illinois astatine Urbana-Champaign        
28. George Washington University 
29. Lehigh University 
30. Brown University            

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