WSSU ranked No. 1 for fourth consecutive year

Courtesy of Media RelationsWinston-Salem State University has been ranked first among Top Public Southern Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor’s category for the fourth consecutive year in the 2005 America’s Best Colleges issue of U.S. News and World Report Magazine. The rankings are part of the magazine’s 2005 annual ranking of top universities in the nation. To compile the rankings, the publication examined several criteria, including an institution’s academic reputation, retention, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, graduate rate performance and alumni giving rate. The ranking marks the fourth showing by WSSU in the publication’s Best Colleges rankings in the past five years. In 1999, WSSU was ranked second among public liberal-arts colleges in the Southern Region by U.S. News and World Report’s 1999 America’s Best Colleges issue. “We are of course very pleased by this ranking which validates our belief that we are moving in the right direction,” said WSSU Chancellor Harold L. Martin Sr. “This is an honor we proudly share with the university family and our community, who help to make this kind of achievement possible.”