Educate to Career College Rankings Index

Baldwin City, Kan. — Baker University has been named a “Top College” and the highest ranked in Kansas in the most recent Educate to Career College Rankings Index.

The ETC Index analyzes the profile of students when they enter a given college, the total costs related to attending the college and the outcomes of the students when they enter the labor market.

Baker was ranked 230th by ETC, placing in the top 20 percent of the College Rankings Index. The ETC College Rankings Index is comprised of accredited four-year colleges, with annual enrollments with more than 1,000 students. The Index analyzes data for more than 1,200 colleges, representing 94 percent of all students enrolled in four-year colleges.

“The index empirically determines the economic value added by each of the 1,224 colleges ranked within our system,” said Michael R. Havis, president and founder of Educate to Career. “We calculate the improvement in earnings and employability of persons who attended specific colleges, relative to those similarly situated in other colleges. We feel that the colleges scoring in the top one-third of our index are doing a very good job on behalf of their students”

Educate to Career, a California based non-profit, provides outcome-based college and career planning tool programs. The full ETC College Rankings Index, including the methodology used to evaluate colleges, is available at http://educatetocareer.org