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ACU Recognized by Forbes Magazine, The Princeton Review

By: BigCountryHomePage.com Staff
Updated: September 6, 2012
ACU is one of "America's Best Colleges" as determined by Forbes Magazine in a rankings list published in August 2012.

Forbes joined with the Center for College Affordability and Productivity to chose 650 schools based on "the quality of the education they provide, the experience of the students and how much they achieve."

ACU was ranked 485, placing the university in the top seven percent of the 6,600 accredited post-secondary institutions eligible for consideration.

ACU and Pepperdine were the only two universities on the list affiliated with Churches of Christ.

Read more about the Forbes article here

The Princeton Review has also named ACU one of the "Best in the West" for 2012.

ACU is one of 121 schools receiving this distinction as "academically excellent institutions of higher learning" for the 15-state western region of the U.S.

ACU is the only one of seven Texas members of its new athletics league, the Southland Conference, to be included in the list.

Learn more about The Princeton Review college rankings.

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