Regis College among Top 100 in career-focused education rankings

Regis College placed among the top 100 schools in the U.S. in the outcome-based ETC College Rankings Index compiled by Educate To Career, Inc. (ETC), a California-based nonprofit organization.

“The crisis in higher education is not one of education,” said ETC president and founder Michael R. Havis in announcing the release of the ETC College Rankings Index. “It is one of outcomes, in which a student’s education is not tracking to jobs or careers relevant to their degree for 50 percent of recent college grads. Coupled with an extremely heavy debt-load that the majority of students incur, the impact upon our young people is both tragic and unconscionable.”

The ETC College Rankings Index was invented to serve students, said Havis, adding, “Young people are entitled to reliable facts upon which to make informed decisions regarding college selection. ETC is interested in real-world outcomes for college graduates – based on their majors and the colleges that they graduated from. Students looking for a quality education, in majors that lead to successful career outcomes, now have actionable information as provided by our ETC College Rankings Index.”

Havis continued: “The Index empirically determines the economic value added by each of the 1,224 colleges ranked within our system. We calculate the improvement in earnings and employability of persons who attended specific colleges, relative to those similarly situated in other colleges.”

Regis College is ranked No. 91 out of 1224 colleges and is the top ranked school in Massachusetts as well as the top ranked private college in New England. Regis administrators cite the ranking as further evidence of the success of the College’s focus on technology-rich, practical, hands-on education in an array of in-demand professional fields, including nursing and health professions, communication, education, and business.

For more information, contact Susan Kennedy, director of the Regis College Office of Internships and Career Placement (781-768-7271 or susan.kennedy@regiscollege.edu).