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By Jan Lucas on September 6, 2018

Towson University continues to keep company with the nation鈥檚 best public and private schools in the just-released Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (WSJ/THE) College Rankings 2019.

TU ranks 484th out of the 968 colleges on the WSJ/THE national list, and 110th out of 286 on the regional list. TU is Maryland鈥檚 highest-ranking USM regional college.

The WSJ/THE College Rankings are described as 鈥渁 pioneering ranking of US colleges and 麻豆传媒高清 that puts student success and learning 鈥攂ased on around 200,000 current student voices 鈥� at its heart.鈥�

The WSJ/THE rankings include the results of THE US Student Survey, which examines a range of key issues including students鈥� engagement with their studies, their interaction with their teachers and their satisfaction with their experience. 

The ranking鈥� scorecard approach uses 215 individual performance indicators combining an over score that reflects the broad strength of the institution.

The overall methodology explores four key areas: Resources, Engagement, Outcomes, and Environment.  According to WSJ/THE researchers, TU scored slightly higher than average in the areas of Engagement, Outcomes, and Environment.

In order to be considered, WSJ/THE required colleges to be Title IV eligible, to award four-year bachelor鈥檚 degrees, to be in the 50 states or the District of Columbia, to enroll more than 1,000 students, to have 20 percent or fewer online-only students, and to not be insolvent.

Colleges that submitted incomplete data or had fewer than the valid number of student respondents were excluded from the rankings. So were private-for-profit colleges.   

This story is one of several related to President Kim Schatzel's priorities for Towson University: TU Matters to Maryland.