A diverse student body, high academic quality and student satisfaction, and a strong faculty, are among the factors that went into Knox College's ranking by U.S. News and World Report, released this week by the magazine. Knox remains ranked in the top half of the National Liberal Arts Colleges category, as it has been since the rankings were first published in 1991.
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Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,220 students from 47 states and 41 nations.