Rollins College is Number One in the South

For the fifth consecutive year, Rollins College ranked number one among 117 Southern master's-level universities in the annual rankings of "America's Best Colleges," released by U.S. News & World Report.

The “best college” rankings are based on surveys of college officials, combined with data provided by institutions, including student selectivity, faculty resources, financial resources, graduation rates and alumni satisfaction.

The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review lists Rollins among the nation’s top schools in its 2010 The Best 371 Colleges guide. Rollins’ undergrads proudly describe Rollins as offering "many opportunities to study abroad" and providing "an excellent quality of life for its students." Highlights include small classes, great computer facilities, and a perfect location in Winter Park.

Colleges with a Conscience
Rollins was one of only 81 schools profiled in The Princeton Review's Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement.

 Fiske Guide

The 2010 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges, one of the nation’s top-rated college guides, says Rollins exposes its students to “various perspectives and areas of knowledge,” enables close relationships between professors and students, and offers student abroad programs for regular tuition costs. The guide also says that Rollins is “the marriage of a liberal arts college and a business school.”

 Colleges of Distinction

Rollins is listed in Colleges of Distinction, a book dedicated to helping prospective students find colleges and universities that consistently provide a remarkable undergraduate experience and produce successful graduates. Rollins is described as having a “long-standing commitment to providing students with a broad and deep international perspective” and producing “Rhodes, Fulbright, Goldwater, and Truman scholars.”

Rollins is a Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Scholars

The Fulbright Program announced that Rollins is currently recognized as the top producing master’s institution in the nation (based on Carnegie Classification). For 2009-10, four students from Rollins College received Fulbright Awards, ranking Rollins number one out of the 81 master’s institutions whose students received Fulbrights (there are a total of 663 master’s institutions in the country). The success of the top-producing institutions was highlighted in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Since receiving its first Fulbright Award in 1951, Rollins has produced a total of 34 Fulbright Scholars (nine of whom have been named since 2005).

 Rollins Achieves Carnegie Community Engagement Classification

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected Rollins as one of the recipients for the 2008 Community Engagement Classification. More than 4,300 colleges and universities around the nation are able to apply for the classification. Rollins is one of 119 institutions to join the 76 institutions identified in the initial 2006 selection process. Less than five percent (4.4) of the colleges and universities nationwide have achieved this prestigious classification. More...

Rollins Receives President’s Honor Roll Award for Distinguished Community Service

For the second year in a row, the Corporation for National and Community Service named Rollins College to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth.

The Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovativeness of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses. More...

Rollins Earns Top Community Engagement Award in the State

Rollins was recognized by Florida Campus Compact for its efforts to increase civic-mindedness through campus-wide voter registration and education and awareness campaigns. Of the 52 colleges that belong to Florida Campus Compact, Rollins took third place in the Democracy Cup Award. Rollins was acknowledged for providing quality voter education on candidates and issues, promoting and increasing the number of student voter registrations, and expanding student voter turnout on Election Day. Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Gabriel Barreneche was also honored with a “Service-Learning Faculty Award” in the independent sector for contributing to the integration of service-learning into the curriculum. More...

National Survey of Student Engagement

Last year, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) found that Rollins is consistently performing above average among private colleges with master’s programs. According to the NSSE, more Rollins students participate in community service, participate in a living learning community, ask questions or contribute to class discussion, and work on a research project with a faculty member.