UD Ranked In Top 100 Best Colleges

The University of Dayton has been named one of the top 100 national universities.

U.S. News and World Report ranked UD at No. 99 in its America’s Best Colleges issues that was released Tuesday.

UD moved up 11 spots from 110 place last year, thanks to improvement in retention rates, graduation rates and class sizes.

The university also ranked 55 among private schools and eighth among Catholic institutions.

Meanwhile, the magazine ranked Miami University 34 in the nation’s top public national universities. U.S. News and World Report ranked Cedarville University fifth in Midwestern regional colleges.