Two Baptist schools of higher education in Alabama have earned top ranks in the new College Consensus approach to evaluating colleges.
University of Mobile (UM) came in at #1 in the Best Regional College in the South category. Samford University in Birmingham is ranked #4 in the Best Regional Universities in the South category.
In the Best Christian Colleges and Universities in the nation category, Samford is ranked #6 and UM #8.
In the Best Colleges in Alabama 2017–2018 category, Samford ranked #1 and UM ranked #7.
To identify the 2018 Top Colleges, College Consensus combined the latest results from the most respected college rankings with thousands of real student reviews to produce a unique consensus score for each school, according to an April 25 announcement.
“Like Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic does for movies, College Consensus gathers the publisher rankings and student reviews from around the web and distills the results into simple, easy-to-understand scores so students can quickly and easily compare schools. It is the ranking of all rankings, so to speak,” said College Consensus founder Jeremy Alder.
The College Consensus ranking is a combined average of a school’s average rating score from the most respected college rankings publishers, including U.S. News & World Report, and a school’s average student review score from around the web, according to the site.
College Consensus says the rankings are “crunching the numbers, pure and simple, to see which colleges the experts admire and which ones the students love.”
Several other Alabama colleges and universities are among the rankings. For the full list, go to collegeconsensus.com. (TAB, UM)
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