{"id":52798,"date":"2022-09-09T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=52798"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:46:02","slug":"emu-ranked-sixth-among-virginia-liberal-arts-colleges-by-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/emu-ranked-sixth-among-virginia-liberal-arts-colleges-by-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU ranked sixth among Virginia liberal arts colleges by Niche"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a nationwide survey, Eastern Mennonite University earned several top rankings, including #5 out of 26 Best Small Colleges in Virginia, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niche.com\/colleges\/eastern-mennonite-university\/\">Niche&#8217;s 2023 Best College Rankings<\/a>, released in August. The university was also named<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niche.com\/colleges\/eastern-mennonite-university\/\">Visit EMU&#8217;s profile and student reviews.<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> #2 out of 20 on the Best Colleges with No Application Fee in Virginia;<\/li><li>#3 out of 14 Best Christian Colleges in Virginia<\/li><li>#4 out of 21 Best Colleges for Nursing in Virginia.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In national rankings, EMU was listed as #65 out of 345 in the Best Christian Colleges of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High marks were reported for diversity, value, campus and academics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niche grades and rankings are calculated using dozens of public data sets from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Office of Post-Secondary Education, The Center for Measuring University Performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/collegescorecard.ed.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">College Scorecard Data<\/a>&nbsp;(post-graduate earnings) from the U.S. Department of Education; the Brookings Institute; and National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niche also has surveys nearly 500,000 college reviews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niche.com\/colleges\/survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Niche College Student Survey<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a nationwide survey, Eastern Mennonite University earned several top rankings, including #5 out of 26 Best Small Colleges in Virginia, from Niche&#8217;s 2023 Best College Rankings, released in August. <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/emu-ranked-sixth-among-virginia-liberal-arts-colleges-by-niche\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about EMU ranked sixth among Virginia liberal arts colleges by Niche<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5725,5583,14715,4513,5730],"tags":[],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-52798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admissions","category-campus-community","category-campus-life","category-student-life","category-undergraduate-programs","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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