Morningside College is included on a U.S. News & World Report list of the country’s “most efficient” colleges and universities. In the “Regional Colleges (Midwest)” category, Morningside scored second on operating efficiency and was one of only five Midwest regional colleges to make the list that compared spending and educational quality.

Morningside College is included on a U.S. News & World Report list of the country’s “most efficient” colleges and universities.

In the “Regional Colleges (Midwest)” category, Morningside scored second on operating efficiency and was one of only five Midwest regional colleges to make the list that compared spending and educational quality.

“Appearing on this list validates our efforts to make a high-quality Morningside College education affordable,” said President John Reynders. “We care about the value our students receive for the investment they make in their education.”

For its analysis, U.S. News looked at colleges that scored the highest on overall undergraduate academic educational quality, but that spent relatively less on their educational programs to achieve that quality.

According to Robert Morse, chief data strategist for U.S. News, “Schools that are featured on these lists are doing a good job in managing their financial resources relative to other schools that may have far greater financial resources because of more state funding, higher tuition or larger endowments.”

U.S. News defined operating efficiency as an institution’s fiscal 2013 per-student financial resources — money spent on instruction, student services, research and related areas — divided by its overall 2015 Best Colleges score.

Only schools that were numerically ranked in the top half of their category in the U.S. News 2015 Best Colleges rankings are included in the analysis. Morningside ranked 23 out of 95 Midwest regional colleges in the 2015 Best Colleges rankings released in September 2014.

The full U.S. News ranking and methodology can be found here.