Rankings
The annual ranking of U.S.News & World Report places it in the top 10 liberal arts colleges in the nation and categorizes it as 'most selective'. Forbes places Vassar in the top 20 of its America's Best Colleges ranking, which includes military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges. Kiplinger's Personal Finance places Vassar in the top 10 of its ranking of best value liberal arts colleges in the United States.
In an article in The Christian Science Monitor on the subject, Vassar president Catharine Bond Hill argued that rankings "will always be limited in what they can tell consumers. Part of higher education's role about the rankings should be to remind students and their families that these are only one piece of information that they should take into account in deciding where to go to college. Intangibles will and should play a role in these decisions, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't also look at the tangibles".
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