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Lehigh Carbon Community College

By Suzy Alstrin

U.S. News & World Report ranked Reinhardt University among its 2025 Best Colleges list. Reinhardt earned a Best Colleges ranking of 33rd in the “Regional Colleges South” category, one place higher than last year.

 The University rose to 15th in “Best Value Schools” and leaped seven places to 68th in “Top Performers on Social Mobility.” It was among 131 institutions ranked in the region.

Now in its 40th year, U.S. News ranked nearly 1,500 U.S. four-year bachelor’s degree-granting institutions on as many as 17 measures of academic quality. It emphasized social mobility and outcomes for graduating college students.

U.S. News publishes the Best Colleges rankings each year to provide prospective students and their families with the comparative merits of the undergraduate programs at America’s colleges and universities. The rankings offer detailed information about the institutions and data on factors including graduation rates, graduate indebtedness, and post-graduate earnings.