ERIE \u2014 Gannon University continues to earn national recognition for being one of the nation\u2019s best universities, according to U.S. News and World Reports\u2019 2026 Best Colleges.<\/p>\n
Gannon, the area\u2019s only nationally ranked university, is ranked 257 out of all nationally ranked universities.<\/p>\n
National universities are those that offer a full range of undergraduate majors, in addition to master\u2019s and doctoral programs, and are committed to producing groundbreaking research. Universities are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence.<\/p>\n
Individual Gannon academic programs also earned top rankings.<\/p>\n
\u2022 141st in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gannon University\u2019s engineering program is among the top in the nation for institutions that have ABET-accredited programs and with the highest engineering degree offered being a bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n
\u2022 204th in Top Performers on Social Mobility\u00a0<\/p>\n
U.S. News defines this category as focusing on institutions that are successful at advancing social mobility by enrolling and graduating large proportions of economically disadvantaged students who are awarded with Pell Grants and are considered less likely than others to finish college. Gannon sees growth in this category, coming in at 232 last year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 410th in Computer Science Programs\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gannon\u2019s computer science programs were recognized among the top in the nation for institutions that have ABET-accredited programs which awarded at least 20 bachelor\u2019s degrees in computer science in 2020-2021.<\/p>\n
\u2022 427th in Best Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Programs\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gannon\u2019s nursing program, previously ranked 566, was deemed a top program by U.S. News and was ranked among institutions that have bachelor\u2019s-level accreditation by either the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing and have recently awarded at least 50 BSN degrees.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the U.S. News & World Report announced the 2025 Best Graduate Schools, ranking Gannon in the following categories:<\/p>\n
\u2022 143-158th in best nursing schools: master\u2019s;\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 68th for best nursing-anesthesia schools;\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 133rd for best occupational therapy programs;\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 198th for best physical therapy programs;<\/p>\n
\u2022 75th for best physician assistant programs; and\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 280th in speech-language pathology\u00a0<\/p>\n
About Gannon University\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gannon University is a Catholic, diocesan university with campuses in Erie, Pa., and Ruskin, Fla., offering online and traditional associate, bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctoral programs to more than 4,700 academically talented and diverse students. Gannon University is dedicated to excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Inspired by the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, the university offers a comprehensive, values-centered learning experience that emphasizes faith, leadership, inclusiveness and social responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE \u2014 Gannon University continues to earn national recognition for being one of the nation\u2019s best universities, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,1983],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-hometown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}