Best Colleges: Up-and-coming Masters Universities (North)
This spring, for the first time, U.S. News asked the experts who respond to its annual peer assessment survey to identify schools that fit this profile. The 70 that received the most nominations range from household names like the University of Southern California to Grand Valley State in Allendale, Mich., and Salve Regina, a 2,000-student Catholic university in Newport, R.I.
| Rank | |
|---|---|
| Wagner College Staten Island, NY | 1 |
| Arcadia University Glenside, PA | 2 |
| Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT | 2 |
| Loyola University Maryland Baltimore, MD | 4 |
| University of Scranton Scranton, PA | 4 |
| Marist College Poughkeepsie, NY | 6 |
| College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ | 7 |
| Gannon University Erie, PA | 7 |
| SUNY--Oswego Oswego, NY | 7 |
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