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Fairfield U Top 25 Best Mid-Sized Colleges & Best Colleges for Nursing

Fairfield University has been named a 2025 Best College by College Raptor.

Fairfield University has been selected among College Raptor’s Top 25 Best Mid-Sized Colleges, and Top 25 Best Colleges for Nursing in the U.S.

This designation acknowledges Fairfield University as a top institution nationwide, based on factors such as retention rate, graduation rates, median SAT/ACT scores, student-to-faculty ration, campus diversity, endowment per student, selectivity, and other metrics as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for the latest enrollment year.

The list of College Raptor’s Top 25 Best Mid-Sized Colleges contains schools that have between 3,000 and 9,999 total students enrolled—including undergraduates and graduate students.

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For the Top 25 Best Colleges for Nursing, College Raptor considered the “overall excellence of the school,” and highlighted “schools where nursing is among the most popular programs, as well as schools that excel in graduating a large number of nurses each year.”

This year’s release marks the college planning website College Raptor’s tenth year launching Best College Rankings.

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