Westmont Degree Ranks High on PayScale

Westmont is ranked in the top 20 percent and is the highest Christian liberal arts school in a survey by PayScale, which looked at the return of investment at more than 850 U.S. colleges and universities. The ROI Rankings, which considered in-state and out-of-state tuition compared to average lifetime earnings, list Westmont as No. 172.

Westmont is the top college among the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), with the next CCCU school 178 spots lower at No. 352.

PayScale, an online salary, benefits and compensation information company, paired tuition and student aid information with self-reported data from graduates to compare the likely cost of an education with the likely return.

In November, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance ranked Westmont in the top 100 liberal arts colleges in its Best Values in Private Colleges list. The report, which noted Westmont’s high four-year graduation rate, low average student debt at graduation, good student-to-faculty ratio and excellent on-campus resources, ranked the schools based on outstanding academics and great economic value.

Westmont has ranked in the top 100 of U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” for the past three years. The college leaped nine spots in the most recent ranking of the best liberal arts colleges, joining only seven other liberal arts colleges in California to appear in the top 100.