Kalamazoo College is ranked among the Best Colleges in the WSJ College Pulse Ranking 2025. The prestigious honor is presented by The Wall Street Journal, College Pulse and Statista, the leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The honors were announced on September 4, 2024, and can be viewed on the WSJ website.
The Best Colleges in the U.S. ranks undergraduate institutions by the value they provide to their students. This value is assessed based on the learning environment, years to pay off the net price, degree completion rates, the likelihood of higher salaries post-graduation, and diversity. The results are derived from official data from the U.S. Department of Education and the Census Bureau, along with a nationwide survey of around 110,000 undergraduate students and recent alumni who graduated within the past five years.
The survey, conducted by College Pulse in cooperation with The Wall Street Journal and Statista, covered topics like career preparation, learning opportunities, and campus life. The ranking combines students’ experience in a learning environment with an exhaustive analysis of student outcomes.
Kalamazoo College also recently made Forbes’ 2024–2025 list of America’s Top Colleges, based on return on investment, average student debt levels and outcomes for their graduates. Their list of 500 colleges and universities highlight schools that produce “successful, high-earning and influential graduates from all economic backgrounds, with less student debt,” according to Forbes.