4 Local Schools Ranked Among Best Colleges In NJ

NORTH JERSEY, NJ — Four local colleges have been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best universities in the state for 2018.

Ramapo College was ranked No. 6 and Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck was ranked No. 8. William Paterson University was ranked No. 13.

Felician University in Lodi and Berkeley College were ranked No. 25 and No. 27, respectively.

Twenty-eight New Jersey schools were included in the U.S. News & World Report rankings.

U.S. News relies on various factors in determining the rankings, with retention, graduate rate performance and graduation rate accounting for 30 percent of the rankings.

“Graduation rate performance measures how well schools are graduating their students based on our predictions, which consider spending, test scores and the proportion of students receiving Pell Grants,” U.S. News explains.

Faculty resources account for 20 percent of the rankings — things like class size, student-to-faculty ratio — and financial resources — average spending on things that go directly toward educating undergraduates — accounts for 10 percent of the rankings. The rest of the rankings are based on expert opinion, student excellence and alumni giving.

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