Reputation and Outcomes
It’s hard to quantify the Simon’s Rock experience or express our reputation as a number, but we can try: the Princeton Review has given us a 92 out of 99 Academic Rating, higher than Harvard and Princeton.
Here are a few other numbers that help tell our story.
National Center for Education Statistics
Survey of Simon's Rock Graduates
Student Retention and AA Graduation Rates
Top 20
Our ranking among all US colleges/universities in terms of percentage of alumni who complete their PhD
10
Number of Fulbright Fellows since 2010
78%
Recent Simon’s Rock graduates who have gone on to graduate study at institutions that include:
- Boston University
- Columbia University
- Georgetown University
- Harvard University
- London School of Economics
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- The New School
- New York University
- Oxford University
- Queen’s University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Chicago
- University of Iowa
- University of Michigan
- University of San Francisco
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Toronto
- University of Washington
- Washington University
- Yale University
Top 10%
Where Simon’s Rock ranked in the most recent National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) for academic challenge, student-faculty interaction, and enriching educational experience
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Doug Ahlers
Builder of first commercial website; founder and director of Broadmoor Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
Loren AliKhan
Attorney; solicitor general for the District of Columbia; Forbes’ “30 Under 30”
Kyle Allison
Systems Biology Fellow, Columbia University; 2014 recipient of the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award; Forbes’ “30 Under 30”
Alison Bechdel
Graphic artist; author; 2014 MacArthur Genius Award;Fun Home (based on her book) wins 2015 Tony Award for best musical | Learn more
Veronica Chambers
Critically acclaimed author and editor best known for Mama’s Girl and The Meaning of Michelle | Learn more
Joel and Ethan Coen
Oscar Award-winning filmmakers
Ronan Farrow
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; former U.S. State Department official; Rhodes Scholar
Rachel Feltman
Science editor, Popular Science
Nita Ing
Chair of Continental Holdings Corporation and Continental Engineering Co. Ltd.; director of Taiwan Synthetic Rubber Corporation; founding shareholder in Taiwan High Speed Rail BOT; advisor to former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian
Mark Leiter
Chairman of Leiter & Company; former chief strategy officer at Nielsen Company; co-founder and former executive chair of Demand Institute
Jessica Mah
Founder and CEO of inDinero.com; one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30”
Roman Mars
Creator, host, and producer of the radio show and podcast 99% Invisible; co-founder of the podcast collective Radiotopia.
John McWhorter
Linguist; author; political commentator for The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times
Raj Mukherji
Senator, New Jersey’s 32nd District; attorney; healthcare and technology entrepreneur
Eli Pariser
Cofounder of UpWorthy; former MoveOn.org executive director
Nina Perales
Vice president of litigation at Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (MALDEF)
Ann Reid
Executive director of the National Center for Science Education; former director, American Academy of Microbiology at American Society for Microbiology
Brooke Skinner Ricketts
Chief marketing officer at Cars.com; former head of brand strategy @Twitter