Brooklyn College Again Ranks Among the Best in the Country
8/21/2009
For another year, Brooklyn College has been ranked among the best colleges in the United States.
The 2010 edition of the Princeton Review’s The Best 371 Colleges makes note of Brooklyn College’s fantastic library, academically challenging curriculum, and diverse and hard-working student body. The college ratings giant points out that students here represent more than 100 countries and speak nearly as many languages.
U.S. News & World Report, in its latest annual survey of 572 institutions, has once again rated Brooklyn College among the top schools in the Northeast that provide the full range of undergraduate and graduate programs.
This year, too, a newly launched website, www.whatwilltheylearn.com, sponsored by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, includes Brooklyn College among only seven U.S. colleges awarded an A grade for the depth and breadth of its curriculum by the not-for-profit organization. Brooklyn College is joined in this exclusive group by its CUNY sister, Hunter College, as well as Baylor University, Texas A&M University, the United States Military Academy, the University of Arkansas and the University of Texas at Austin.
Donna Wilson, dean of undergraduate studies at Brooklyn College, credits the college’s Core Curriculum with contributing to its achievements.
“Our students come from richly diverse cultural, national, ethnic and religious traditions,” she says. “When they come to the college, they pursue a wide array of specialized majors and preprofessional preparation.
“From the inception of the Core Curriculum in the early 1980s,” Wilson continues, “the faculty has been convinced that providing our student population with a common intellectual experience is the best way to assure them a broad and deep education in the liberal arts and sciences, regardless of their major.”
Core Curriculum courses are designed specifically to meet 10 common goals of undergraduate education at Brooklyn College, and they allow the college to assess student learning in those 10 goals in a focused way.
