The University of Findlay has been ranked by U.S.News and World Report as a top-tier Midwest university. The complete list of rankings will appear in the 2008 edition of “America’s Best Colleges,” which will be on newsstands Monday, Aug. 20, and is currently available online.

The annual rankings, in which U.S.News groups schools based on categories created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, provide a resource for parents and students researching colleges and universities.

Schools are ranked based on key measures of quality including peer assessment, graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving.

Using a proprietary methodology, the annual U.S.News and World Report rankings are developed to help consumers evaluate and compare data compiled from more than 1,400 accredited four-year schools.

This year, the methodology did change slightly from previous years. Category changes, inclusion of military service academies, addition of Pell grants as a ranking criterion and the listing of un-ranked schools with their prospective categories were all changes for the 2008 rankings.