U.S. News & World Report continues to prominently feature Beloit in its annual “Best Colleges” rankings, particularly in the areas emphasizing innovation, teaching quality, and value.

In the 2025 report, Beloit was ranked:

• No. 16 for First-Year Experience
• No. 18 (tie) for Most Innovative Schools
• No. 40 for Best Value Schools
• No. 49 (tie) for Undergraduate Teaching Programs
• No. 95 (tie) for National Liberal Arts Colleges
• No. 98 (tie) for Top Performers for Social Mobility

In the 2024 report, Beloit was ranked:

• No. 16 for First-Year Experience
• No. 38 for Best Value Schools
• No. 59 for Top Performers for Social Mobility
• No. 86 for National Liberal Arts Colleges

In the 2023 report, Beloit was ranked:

• No. 11 for First-Year Experience
• No. 19 for Most International Students
• No. 29 for Most Innovative Schools
• No. 30 for Best Value Schools
• No. 33 for Best Campus Diversity
• No. 41 for Best Undergraduate Teaching
• No. 53 for Undergraduate Research
• No. 70 for Top Performers for Social Mobility
• No. 81 for National Liberal Arts Colleges

In the 2022 report, Beloit was ranked:

• No. 9 for Most Innovative Schools
• No. 24 for First-Year Experience
• No. 29 for Best Undergraduate Teaching

In the 2021 report, Beloit was ranked:

• No. 5 for Most Innovative Schools
• No. 19 for Most International Students
• No. 24 for First-Year Experiences
• No. 48 for Best Value Schools
• No. 57 for Best Undergraduate Teaching
• No. 58 for Social Mobility
• No. 80 for National Liberal Arts Colleges

In the 2020 report, Beloit was ranked:

• No. 82 (tie) among top National Liberal Arts Colleges
• No. 22 (tie) for Best Undergraduate Teaching
• No. 64 in Best Value Schools

In the 2019 rankings, Beloit was Ranked:

• No. 68 (tie) in top National Liberal Arts Colleges
• No. 28 (tie) in Best Undergraduate Teaching
• No. 68 in Best Value Schools
• No. 79 (tie) in “High School Counselor Rankings”

Beloit College regularly appears on this monthly magazine’s list of the nation’s top liberal arts institutions. The magazine focuses especially on service, research, and social mobility indicators.

In its 2024 rankings of Liberal Arts Colleges, Washington Monthly placed Beloit 77 on its list of the nation’s 200 best Liberal Arts Colleges, as well as in the top 25 percent of Best Bang for the Buck - Midwest School.

Beloit College is among the 40 institutions recognized in the well-known college guide written by former New York Times education editor Loren Pope. Beloit was once again included in the book when it was updated and re-released in 2012. Below are some of Pope’s observations that can be found in the original guide:

• Campus Environment:
  • “[Beloit] is a place to develop a strong sense of identity.”
• Student Satisfaction:
  • “Beloit is a happy place that multiplies talents.”
  • “Beloit gets 94 percent to 97 percent of its freshman back for sophomore year, which is at least as good as the status schools.”
• Student/Faculty Collaboration:
  • “It is not unusual for [Beloit] students to be co-authors with faculty members on papers presented at professional meetings and occasionally of a book. It would be unusual for an undergraduate to have this kind of excitement or get this kind of recognition at a university.”
• Teaching and Academics:
  • “Beloit’s students are heavily involved in their own education. [Many] present an individual project in open forum and submit to questions from other students, faculty, and staff. Some projects have been good enough to be accepted for academic professional meetings.”
• Producing Future Leaders:
  • “[S]eniors and recent graduates are saying […] emphatically that Beloit has changed their lives.”
  • “[B]y the time they graduate, more than half of Beloit’s students have had some kind of off-campus study or internship, in this country or abroad. Also, over 80 percent of graduates have completed an independent study or special project.”
  • “Sixty-three percent of graduates go on to get graduate or professional degrees, which puts [Beloit] among the top 50 in the country. And when it comes to producing future Ph.D.s in sociology, anthropology, geology, and foreign languages, it’s in the top 15%. When Who’s Who is used as an indicator of major contributors or achievers across the board, Beloit again appears among the top 50.”
  • “Beloit is a founding member of the International 50 […]. This group produces foreign service officers, ambassadors, and people who get doctorates in foreign languages and international studies at four to six times the rate of major research universities.”

In its 2024 rankings, the Princeton Review recognized Beloit as one of the Best 389 Colleges in the U.S, and added the college to its Best Midwest and Best Green Colleges lists. 

In recent years, Beloit has been recognized for being a college with the most accessible professors, as well as having the best science lab facilities — a nod to our premier, LEED certified Sanger Science Center.

Beloit College appears at number 22 on the National Science Foundation’s list of national liberal arts colleges with the highest percentage of graduates who go on to earn doctoral degrees. The 22nd place ranking is based on the proportion of students earning doctoral degrees from 1997 to 2006.

Beloit ranks 32nd in Ph.D. degree production among all colleges and universities, and the college is ranked among the top 50 for all colleges and universities for students completing Ph.D. degrees in the following fields:

• Anthropology: 2nd
• Social Sciences: 13th
• Business: 17th
• Geosciences: 26th
• Humanities: 41st
• English and Literature: 20th
• Life Sciences: 35th
• Biological Sciences: 38th
• Math and Computer Sciences: 31st
• Physical Sciences: 33rd
• Political Sciences: 42nd

From the 2010 Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Study based on data from the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates.