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Gallaudet recognized in the
2021 U.S. News & World Report
Best Colleges rankings
Gallaudet University named No. 3 “Best Value School” among national universities
This places Gallaudet among some of America’s most well-known universities and highest among all Washington, D.C. schools
Gallaudet ranked No. 21 in Economic Diversity among national universities,
which measures the number of undergraduate students receiving Pell Grants.
Gallaudet was ranked No. 24 in Top Performers on Social Mobility (up from No. 45 last year),
which measures how well schools graduate student recipients of Pell Grants.
Gallaudet jumped 55 places to a tie at No. 124 in the overall rankings of national universities.
Gallaudet University, federally chartered in 1864, is a bilingual, diverse, multicultural institution of higher education
that ensures the intellectual and professional advancement of deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind individuals through American Sign Language and English. The university enrolls over 1,300 students in more than 40 undergraduate majors, as well as many graduate programs at the master’s and doctoral level. It also conducts much research in a variety of fields, including brain imaging, educational neuroscience, education, linguistics, psychology, Deaf history and culture, and Black Deaf history and culture
