Seattle Pacific scores high in 2025 national rankings

For the ninth year in a row, Seattle Pacific has been named a “Best National University” in U.S. News & World Report’s best college annual rankings for 2025. SPU was the first private university in the Pacific Northwest to achieve this ranking in 2017. U.S. News defines national universities as those institutions offering a range of undergraduate majors plus master's and doctoral programs and emphasizing faculty research or award professional doctorates.

Seattle Pacific is the No. 1 ranked Christian university in the Northwest in Niche’s “2025 Best Christian Colleges in America.” Niche is an online resource providing information on K–12 schools, colleges, and more and is a top guide for students looking for a college. The Wall Street Journal included SPU in its 2025 America’s Best Colleges.

U.S. News also ranked SPU in the top 100 for Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs and gave it high marks for Best Undergraduate Nursing Programs. SPU was named a Top Performer in Social Mobility, which U.S. News describes as institutions that enroll and graduate large proportions of students who receive Pell Grants. (Pell Grants are a need-based federal financial aid program aimed at helping low-income families afford to pay for college).

SPU’s eligibility in the national university category is due to the growth in the institution’s programs, including a master of science in research psychology and a master of arts in theology as well as a new undergraduate degree in elementary education.

Posted: Wednesday, September 25, 2024