Muhlenberg Makes Outcomes-Based “Wall Street Journal” 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. List
The College is #111 on a list of the nation’s top 500 public and private institutions. This ranking system, per the outlet, “measures how well each college sets graduates up for financial success.”Monday, September 9, 2024 00:38 PM
Students attend a business course in the newly renovated Finance Lab. Photo by Kristi MorrisThe Wall Street Journal recently ranked Muhlenberg College #111 on a list of 500 top schools in the nation in a system that focuses on student outcomes. The College was also ranked #110 out of the top 500 for student experience.
The outlet’s methodology intends to quantify “how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings, balancing these outcomes with feedback from students on college life,” per The Wall Street Journal.
Unlike other rankings systems, which sort schools into categories and rank them against only their peers, the Wall Street Journal list includes four-year institutions of all sizes, both public and private, from small liberal arts colleges to R1 research institutions. Muhlenberg was also the 11th-highest ranked college or university in Pennsylvania.
Recent Muhlenberg alumni have gone on to work at companies including the Big Four accounting firms, Pixar, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, BlackRock, CBS Sports and Universal Music Group. Others have landed jobs on Broadway and in national and regional performances. Recent grads have also pursued postgraduate degrees at institutions including Harvard University, Boston University, Cornell University, New York University and The George Washington University. Muhlenberg has a more than 90 percent placement rate into medical, dental and law school. Learn more about Muhlenberg outcomes here.
Find the complete 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. list here.
