U.S. NEWS RECOGNIZES ADRIAN FOR SMALL CLASSES, LOW DEBT posted 9/10/03

When U.S. News and World Report recently released its “America’s Best Colleges” rankings, Adrian College was ranked near the top of two noteworthy categories.

One is for small classes. Of the 217 national liberal arts schools ranked, Adrian is 44th in the “Highest Proportion of Classes Under 20” category. U.S. News reports that 73 percent of classes at Adrian have 20 students or less.

The other is for least debt. Adrian ranked 28th for the average debt of its graduates.

“We're very pleased to be recognized in these two important areas,” said Janel Sutkus, Adrian College director of admissions. “Not only are we providing our students with value in their education – strong financial aid awards with a minimum of future loan debt – we also offer them something even more valuable: the personal attention and mentoring relationships that can only be found and developed in small classes.”

Adrian is one of 217 schools in the Liberal Arts Colleges – Bachelor’s category, which consists of national liberal arts colleges that emphasize undergraduate education and award at least half of their degrees in the liberal arts disciplines. This category includes some of the most prestigious colleges in the country such as Amherst, Swarthmore, Williams, Grinnell, Oberlin and Carleton. Most of the institutions in Adrian’s athletic conference, the MIAA, are also on this list.

The full results for these and other categories are available online (www.usnews.com) to premium subscribers.