About Juniata

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What Others are Saying About Juniata

Our Students

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College Guides

Juniata is mentioned in scores of diverse guides, articles, and measures of colleges and universities. Regardless of evaluation methods, the College is consistently praised as supportive, innovative, and a model for the best that liberal arts education can be.

We are praised for our overall offerings in:

We are recognized for our distinctive focus on experience and excellent outcomes in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives; Weinstein's Making a Difference College Guide; the Teagle Foundation's study, "The Nation's 13 Best Performing Colleges;" and The Unofficial, Unbiased, Insiders Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges.

"One group of upperclass students felt so strongly about the quality of their experiences that they asked me, "What's the difference between this school and Amherst?" My answer was that Amherst has more very bright, more sophisticated, and more well-to-do freshman than Juniata, but by the time they're seniors the situation has been reversed. The Juniata seniors' talents have been doubled and sharpened, and they have been better equipped to cope, to adapt, and to take risks - things they will have to do in this new world." -Loren Pope

Our accessibility and openness to students from diverse economic, social, racial and ethnic backgrounds has been recognized by the Center for Student Opportunity's College Access Guide and Leland Miles' Provoking Thought: What Colleges Should Do for Students.

We are lauded for our commitment to service and community in guides like Rugg's Recommendations on Colleges, usnews.com's "America's Best Colleges - A+ Options for B Students," Entrepreneur.com's "Colleges with an Entrepreneurship Emphasis," Washington Monthly's College Rankings, Don Asher's Cool Colleges, and ELLEgirl magazine's "Top 50 Colleges that Dare to be Different."

For those wondering what our students themselves say, see Vault's College Buzz Book, College Prowler, and, believe it or not, Cosmo Girl Magazine's "The Top 100 Colleges and Universities."