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In 2018 UC was ranked #133. In the 2010s UC climbed the rankings from as low as #156 and hovered around the #130-135 mark. As everyone notes selectivity has gradually decreased, to the point now UC is accepting 85% of the applicants (at one point only 67% were being selected).

The other factor in the metrics used by USNWR is with all this student growth, UC has not kept up with faculty resources such as class size and faculty to student ratios.

For many years we would lament UC was punished for having a large co-op as the rankings measured a four year graduation rate. That has been changed to six year but it still does not help us.

On the positive note, all of the Ohio colleges and universities continue to fall in the rankings so we have not slid to the point where we are being surpassed by the MAC schools (Miami was always ahead of us but they have fallen to #105 which is a low for them as well).