Fairfield University continues to earn top honors in prestigious rankings. The University has been named among College Raptor’s Top 25 Best Mid-Sized Colleges and the Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing & Health Studies is featured on its Top 25 Best Colleges for Nursing in the U.S.

These accolades underscore the University’s outstanding academic performance and commitment to excellence, and highlight our impressive student-to-faculty ratio and exceptional retention and graduation rates, as detailed by the National Center for Education Statistics.

The list of College Raptor’s Top 25 Best Mid-Sized Colleges contains schools that have total graduate and undergraduate student enrollments between 3,000 and 9,999.

For the Top 25 Best Colleges for Nursing, College Raptor considered the “overall excellence of the school,” and highlighted “schools where nursing is among the most popular programs, as well as schools that excel in graduating a large number of nurses each year.”

Additionally, the Charles F. Dolan School of Business continues to shine, with its MBA programs featured in The Princeton Review’s 2024 Best Business Schools Rankings. Not only has Fairfield Dolan been recognized among the top business schools nationwide, but it also stands out for its diverse and flexible MBA concentrations, boasting a remarkable 99-percent job placement rate for graduates.

The Princeton Review’s Best On-Campus MBA and Best Online MBA lists feature Fairfield Dolan among business schools selected based on various factors, including institutional data such as career outcomes, admissions selectivity, and academic rigor, among others. Data is collected through surveys of school administrators and current students, who provide insights into their experiences. For the 2024 rankings, data was gathered from 409 business school administrators and 32,200 MBA students.