WHAT MAKES US STRONG
Strong Rankings
Top College
Meredith College has been consistently ranked both a top regional and national college.
– U.S. News & World Report
Top 23%
As one of the “Best Colleges in the South”, we’re among the top 23% of four-year colleges in the U.S.
– The Princeton Review
#2
Best Liberal Arts College in North Carolina
– Niche
Top Accreditation
Meredith is the only women’s college in the world accredited by AACSB International – the gold standard of business schools.
Best in the U.S.
The “Hidden Gem” among North Carolina colleges and universities
– College Raptor
#1
Top Business School for Women
– College Consensus
Strong For All
We’re committed to making a Meredith education affordable through generous scholarships and financial assistance. We also provide a broad support system to help every student thrive in college – and beyond. In fact, U.S. News ranked Meredith in the top 50% of national liberal arts colleges for social mobility, which highlights our success in graduating students from families earning less than $50,000 a year.
- $39,597 was the average amount of financial assistance awarded to first-year students last year.
- Meredith coordinates $57 million in financial aid annually.
- Approximately 95% of our students receive financial aid.
- $32 million in scholarships and grants are available from Meredith College.
- 98% of alumnae rated the value of a Meredith College education as good, very good, or excellent.
Strong Stories
A faculty mentor helped biology major Laura Hooper, ’24, find an opportunity at a lab at Auburn University with a research focus that perfectly matches her interests in aquatic science and microbiology. She will be pursuing a master’s degree with a full-ride and graduate assistantship.
Through multiple internships, leadership opportunities, and challenging academics, Broyhill Fellow Machaela Murrell, ’24, combined her interests in music and finance to identify a career path that was right for her.
Through an internship and honors thesis, nutrition major Anna-Moriah Fung, ’24, has expanded her knowledge and passion for the field. Her next step: pursuing a Master of Public Health from UNC at Chapel Hill.
Strong Experiences
Meredith offers more than 90 majors, and minors – including the option to design your own. And our students apply their learning in a variety of ways. In fact, 92% of our students participate in experiential learning such as internships, study abroad, and undergraduate research. How does that stack up to other schools?
Compared with other college students nationally …
- 22% MORE Meredith seniors participate in internships or field experiences
- 14% MORE seniors study abroad
- 23% MORE seniors conduct research with faculty
Who We Are
graduates living in all 50 states and around the world
STRONG OUTCOMES
Thanks to our strengths-based approach to education, our students graduate feeling confident in their next steps, whether graduate and professional school or a career.
Companies and organizations that have hired recent Meredith graduates include
- Autism Society of North Carolina
- Biogen
- HCL Technologies
- IBM
- MetLife
- NC Museum of Art
- Oxford University Press
- SAS Institute
- VisionPoint Marketing
- Walt Disney World
Graduate and professional schools attended by recent graduates include
- Campbell University School of Law
- Columbia University
- Duke University
- East Carolina University, School of Dental Medicine
- Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Emory University
- Meredith College
- University of Texas, Arlington
- Wake Forest University
Love Where You Live
Meredith is located near downtown Raleigh, the Research Triangle Park, and Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Extensive faculty and staff contacts with top employers and organizations give students access to exceptional internships – and jobs. And students enjoy exploring the Triangle area, which boasts an active arts and music scene, competitive athletics, an extensive greenway and parks system, and is home to a diverse community of more than 176,000 college students attending 12 colleges and universities.
Meredith’s lush, historic 225-acre campus includes state-of-the-art academic facilities, a 1,200-seat amphitheater overlooking a picturesque lake, residence halls and student apartments, a student center, a fitness center, and an athletic field and track complex.
