Coast Guard Academy continues to rank among the nation's top colleges

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Coast Guard Academy continues to rank among the nation's top colleges

Academy recognized in U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and Forbes college rankings

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NEW LONDON, Conn. — The U.S. Coast Guard Academy has again been listed as one of the top institutions of higher education in the U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and Forbes Magazine colleges rankings.

The U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings are a thorough examination of how more than 1,400 accredited four-year schools in the U.S. compare in a set of widely-accepted indicators of excellence. This year the academy again ranked #1 in the Top Public Schools Regional Colleges North, and #2 in the overall Regional Colleges North categories in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges publication. The academy was also ranked 11th in the Best in Undergraduate Engineering Programs category in the same publication.

America’s Top Colleges magazine from Forbes placed the academy at number 10 in the Top 25 Public Colleges list, and at number nine in the Top STEM Colleges list.  The Princeton Review also ranked the academy in their Best 382 Colleges publication, a listing of the top 15% of colleges and universities in America. 

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy offers a quality higher education experience that emphasizes leadership, physical fitness and professional development leading to a guaranteed job upon graduation as an officer in the United States Coast Guard.

 

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