The last decade has seen steady progress in enrollment, endowment, and the annual fund. Although current economic conditions have caused a hiccough in all three, one area continued its steady march forward — that is Hampden-Sydney’s US News & World Report “Best Liberal Arts Colleges” ranking.
In the recently released rankings, Hampden-Sydney is 97, up from 98 last year, and again in the Top 100.
In 2000, Hampden-Sydney was in the Third Tier (Third Tier schools are not numerically ranked, but are listed alphabetically) where it had been ranked for several …