U.S. News & World Report has placed SUNY Geneseo first among universities in the country’s north region for providing a high quality education while spending relatively less than its peers to achieve it. The college ranked second last year.
This is the third year U.S. News has published its operating efficiency rankings, generated this year by dividing a school’s 2013 fiscal year financial resources per student by its overall score in the 2015 best colleges rankings. Geneseo ranked 14th in the north region in the latest general rankings and 146th in financial resources per student, yielding $235.57 in spending per student for each point in the U.S. News overall scores. U.S. News factors in spending per student on instruction, research, student services and related educational expenditures to determine financial resources.
“Schools featured on this list are doing a good job in managing their financial resources relative to other schools that may have larger state funding, higher tuition or larger endowments,” writes Robert Morse, chief data strategist for U.S. News & World Report. “The less a school is spending relative to its ranking in the overall rankings, the more efficient it was in its ability to produce a top-quality education.”
The only schools included in producing the efficiency list were those in the top half of their ranking category in the 2015 best colleges rankings.
Geneseo also ranked first in the "Best Undergraduate Teaching" category and second in the "Top Public Schools" category among north region universities in U.S. News' 2015 college rankings, among the most closely followed in the world.