TAC and the Ivy League

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni recently awarded Thomas Aquinas College its highest ranking among 1,070 colleges and universities nationwide.

The ACTA evaluation focuses on the substance of schools’ mandatory courses and texts, or core curriculum. The association has identified seven essential areas of study for undergraduates — composition, literature, American history, foreign language, mathematics, science, and economics. The more of these areas of study required by a college or university, and the more substantive the curricula in these areas, the higher the school’s overall ACTA rating. Less than 2 percent of colleges nationwide received an “A,” and only 0.3 percent, including Thomas Aquinas College, achieved a perfect score.

Here’s a chart comparing Thomas Aquinas College with the nation’s historic Ivy League universities:

School	Grade								Tuition	Graduation Rate
Brown University	F								$42,230	95%
Columbia University	B								$45,290	93%
Cornell University	B								$41,541	93%
Dartmouth College	B								$42,996	95%
Harvard University	D								$39,851	97%
Princeton University	C								$37,865	96%
Stanford University	C								$41,564	96%
Thomas Aquinas College	A								$22,850	69%
University of Pennsylvania	C								$42,098	96%
Yale University	D								$40,500	97%