Q. William Hammack School of Business Dean Dennis W. Kelly was recognized by Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering at a recent alumni awards ceremony. Kelly, who graduated from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in 1976, was selected for membership in the 2019 class of the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia […]
Oglethorpe University is among only 78 colleges and universities in the U.S. named to Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s 2019 Transfer Honor Roll. Phi Theta Kappa, the premier honor society for two-year college students, annually recognizes four-year colleges and universities for excellence and success in community college transfer pathway development. In fall 2018, Oglethorpe welcomed […]
Oglethorpe University was recognized among the top colleges nationwide for providing financial aid to international students by LendEDU, a marketplace for student loans and student loan refinance. After analyzing data licensed from Peterson’s Financial Aid Database to determine which schools offer the most financial aid to international students, LendEDU ranked Oglethorpe in the top 25-percent of more […]
Fourteen members of the Oglethorpe University community, including students, faculty, staff and a trustee, were tapped this week to be inducted into the national leadership honor society Omicron Delta Kappa: Syeda Bano Julissa Canas-Escobar Sarah Collum Benna Curole Hannah Dattilo Deon Heavens Ryan Holtzen Margaret Light Bethany Malskis Linda Simpson Jax Wright Dr. Amanda Printz Whooley […]
Personal finance website Wallethub puts Oglethorpe University in the top third of colleges and universities in the country, and top 10 of Georgia, in its annual ranking of nearly 1,000 institutions determining the top-performing schools at the lowest possible costs to undergraduates. The rankings look at 30 key measures, with the data set grouped into seven categories, […]
The Oglethorpe Academic Success team was invited to the National Academic Advising Association’s Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona where three members of the department presented advising proposals as part of informational sessions. “The image we hoped we presented of Oglethorpe at this national conference is that although we are a small liberal arts university, we are on the forefront […]
Oglethorpe is once again one of the southeast’s institutes of “Top Quality,” according to College Factual, a college choice resource that evaluates more than 1,700 four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. to create annual rankings based on quality, value and other factors. College Factual is among the many groups who have recognized the university for […]
The annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings calls Oglethorpe University one of the nation’s Best Liberal Arts Colleges. Oglethorpe continues to be ranked highly with high school counselors, who were asked to evaluate the reputations of National Liberal Arts Colleges and identify which they think offer the best undergraduate education to their students. U.S. News asked the high school counselors […]
Oglethorpe University was again included in the The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education U.S. College Rankings, an annual, student-focused assessment of colleges and universities that emphasizes student success and learning in an effort to measure institutions’ “educational impact.” In the 2019 WSJ/THE rankings of 968 colleges and universities nationwide, Oglethorpe was noted as an institution that provides an inclusive learning […]
Oglethorpe is among colleges nationwide with the lowest average student loan debt per borrower for the Class of 2017. LendEDU, a marketplace for student loans and student loan refinance, ranks Oglethorpe University as the 199th best private college nationwide for the lowest student loan debt per borrower out of more than 1,110 college and universities analyzed. “Oglethorpe is […]