University officials were happy with the news. The chief factor of success at Kettering University is the professional co-operative education program. Co-op provides a rationale for learning and serves as a motivator for students.
Students get a 'real world' look and an opportunity to see what's going on in the industry.
Also pleased was department head Dr. David Poock, who said the news was a very pleasant surprise. The ranking is done by University officials across the United States, and is the result of questionnaires filled out by deans and senior faculty at the nation's accredited colleges and universities. U.S. News and World Report uses 16 measures of academic excellence in making their selections. Among them are academic reputation, graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources and graduation rate performance. The overall ranking system rests on two pillars, the magazine reported.