Hillsdale College Ranked In Top 10 Colleges for Merit Scholarships

HILLSDALE, Mich., March 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report recently ranked Hillsdale College ninth in the country with regards to undergraduate institutions that award the highest rates of merit scholarships.

"We cultivate a student body that seeks excellence in all pursuits," said Rich Moeggenberg, financial aid director at Hillsdale College. "This ranking reflects the emphasis we place on that effort and our commitment to helping students pursuing a Hillsdale College education."

According to U.S. News data, 45.6 percent of Hillsdale College's full-time student body receive some form of merit-based scholarship. As defined by U.S. News, merit scholarships are "aid packages based upon a student's unique abilities, academic or extracurricular, rather than financial need." The 10 institutions ranked as top merit scholarship providers offer merit-based aid at significantly higher rates than average among the nation's 1,111 reporting schools.

For more information on the U.S. News & World Report rankings, click here.

About Hillsdale College
Hillsdale College, founded in 1844, has built a national reputation through its classical liberal arts core curriculum and its principled refusal to accept federal or state taxpayer subsidies, even indirectly in the form of student grants or loans. It also conducts an outreach effort promoting civil and religious liberty, including a free monthly speech digest, Imprimis, with a circulation of more than 376 million. More information is available at hillsdale.edu. 

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