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SU Consistently Ranks Among the Nation’s Best!
Our Graduates Are Ready For Tomorrow
Salisbury University sets success in motion. You can make tomorrow yours here – and own it – in a way that will propel you forward in your life, community and career – across Maryland and beyond. Study where your opportunities are endless, your cost is affordable and your return on investment will pay back a lifetime of possibilities.
Spotlight on Recent SU Accolades
In college guidebooks and surveys, SU remains highly ranked for the value it provides students and families, its academic offerings, and its “green” campus. Here are a few of the national publications that have lauded SU:
U.S. News and World Report
:
Top Public Schools, Best Online M.Ed.,
Best Online Master’s in Nursing, Best Online M.B.A.
The Princeton Review
: Best Colleges,
Best Value Colleges
,
Green Colleges (Top 40)
, Best College Libraries (Top 25)
Forbes
:
Top Colleges
Washington Monthly
:
Best Bang for the Buck Colleges
Money
:
America’s Best Colleges
The Wall Street Journal
and College Pulse:
Best Colleges in the U.S.
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance:
Best Public College Values
Military Times
:
Best for Vets: Colleges
Fortune
:
Best Business Schools and M.B.A. Programs (Top 30)
Destinations of Graduates
The University, along with its Career Services and Alumni Engagement offices, surveys students and recent graduates, learning valuable data about their satisfaction and successes. This is just a snapshot of outcomes for Salisbury Sea Gulls:
Employment Success Locally and Nationally
Salisbury University graduates benefit from a network of over 56,000 alumni worldwide, as well as the lifelong support of the
SU Alumni Association
and
SU Career Services
. SU students go on to be teachers in our classrooms, nurses in our hospitals, civil servants and corporate leaders, and entrepreneurs creating jobs in our communities. We produce continuous learners who will be an integral part of our society and communities in the 21st century.
$
58,059
Average salary of recent graduates
100+
Student winners of prestigious fellowships and scholarship in the past decade
36%
Indicated that they had enrolled in additional formal education following their graduation from SU
98%
Of those seeking employment were employed full- or part-time within one year after graduation
96%
Felt SU prepared them for their current job
88%
Were satisfied with the job they accepted
Just a Few of Our Accolades
In guidebooks and surveys, SU consistently ranks among the nation’s best for quality and value.
U.S. News and World Report's Best Colleges
SU is
ranked
among
U.S. News and World Report’s
Best Colleges for the 29th consecutive year (September 2025). SU is among the
Best Regional Universities in the North
and also is included on lists for
Top Public Schools
, Top Performers on Social Mobility, and Best Colleges for Veterans.
Three of SU's
online graduate programs
also are ranked Best Online M.Ed., Best Online Master’s in Nursing, and Best Online M.B.A.
The Princeton Review's Best Colleges and Best Values
SU is ranked in The Princeton Review’s
The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition
for the 26th consecutive year (August 2024). SU also is
among the nation’s Best Value Colleges, top 15% of four-year colleges
and
The Best
Mid-Atlantic Colleges. In 2025, SU
ranked 39th in The Princeton Review’s
Guide to Green Colleges,
and the Guerrieri Academic Commons was named one of the Top 25 Best College Libraries in the nation, according to The Princeton Review’s rankings.
Forbes's Top Colleges and Best Values
SU is ranked among
Forbes
magazine’s
America’s Top Colleges
for 2025 for the 12th year (August 2025 edition).
Money's America's Best Colleges
SU is ranked among
Money
magazine’s
The Best Colleges in America
for 2025 for the 11th year.
Washington Monthly's 'Best Bang for the Buck' Colleges
SU is ranked among
Washington Monthly
magazine's America’s
Best Bang for the Buck Colleges
for the 13th consecutive year (2025 edition).
The Wall Street Journal and College Pulse's Best Colleges in the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal
and College Pulse included SU in their joint ranking of “Best Colleges in the U.S.” for the second consecutive time in 2025.
Kiplinger's Best Values
SU is among Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s
Best Public College Values
for 2019 (August 2019 issue). This is the 11th year SU has been included.
Chronicle's Top Producers of Fulbright Students
The Chronicle of Higher Education and U.S. Department of State included Salisbury University among the nation's top producers of
Fulbright Students
for the seventh consecutive year. Dozens of SU students have won national and international fellowships in recent years.
Learn more about their successes.
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Alumni In The News
It’s a Friday afternoon in May. Rise Up Coffee Roasters founder Tim Cureton pulls up to their newest location in Cambridge, MD, with his son and father. It was Grandparents Day at his son’s school, and as usual, Tim has a busy schedule, but he always makes time for his Alma Mater. Family is everything to Tim. Like most, he has many families: he has his family who are relatives, he has his “work/specialty coffee” family, and he has his Salisbury University family.
Read more stories about graduates
Read the Alumni Newsletter
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Data Disclosures: In May 2024, SU surveyed students approximately one month prior to earning their baccalaureate degree. Approximately, 46% of them responded to the survey.
We additionally have surveyed approximately 8% of our graduates each summer over the past three years (343 students)
to gather employment and further education data one year after graduation. For more information about other surveys and methodologies that produced this data, visit SU's
UARA right to know page
.
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