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Accreditation & Rankings
Accreditation & Rankings
We are Redlands:
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A+ School and Great Price (U.S. News)
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Top 5% of America's Best Colleges (Forbes)
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One of Higher Ed’s Best Kept Secrets (Fiske)
- Top 15% of America's 4-Year Colleges (Princeton)
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Top 20 for the Public Good (Washington Monthly)
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Graduates' Salaries Rank in the Top 15% of Colleges (Payscale)
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Top 15% nationally as a Military-Friendly School (GI Jobs)
U.S. News & World Report rankings
The University of Redlands is again among the top 15 western master’s universities in U.S. News & World Report 2012 Edition - America’s Best Colleges. It is also ranked as an A+ School and a "Great School, Great Price."
Redlands has one of the lowest student/faculty ratios for all schools in this category at 11 students per faculty and one of the highest percentages of classes with fewer than 20 students. Our academic reputation / peer assessment score also increased this year.
Fulbright Awards
The University of Redlands has produced nine undergraduate Fulbright scholars in the past four years. The Chronicle of Higher Education lauded Redlands for its high percentage of undergraduate Fulbright Scholars.
Fulbright awards are the highest and most competitive awards for overseas research or teaching given by the federal government to approximately 1,500 graduating seniors each year. Only 11 percent of all Fulbright awards are given annually to undergraduate students.
Best 376 Colleges
The Princeton Review lists the University of Redlands as one of the 123 Best Western Colleges in its "2011 The Best 376 Colleges" book, designed to identify colleges and universities that the publication feels are standouts in each region.
Accreditation
The University of Redlands is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). There are additional accreditations for specific programs:
- Chemistry programs by the American Chemical Society
- School of Music by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
- Communicative Disorders programs by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- School of Education by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing