Does NEASC recommend or rank colleges?
No. Colleges and universities differ so much from one another (with regard to mission, types of programs, students served) that they cannot be easily ranked. Various publications rank institutions on specific details (such as size, tuition, endowment, selectivity, faculty publications). These rankings may offer one source of information, but they do not contain all the information needed to determine institutional quality. Each student must determine whether an institution meets his or her needs.
