Linfield’s commitment to improving the lives of its students was recognized this fall. For the third consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report magazine named Linfield one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation when it comes to social mobility, and Washington Monthly named Linfield the No. 1 liberal arts college in Oregon for social mobility. Washington Monthly also named Linfield the top college or university in Oregon and No. 29 in the nation for graduate earnings.
The social mobility category measures how well universities graduate students who received federal Pell Grants. Students receiving these grants typically come from households whose family incomes are less than $50,000 annually, with most money going to students with total family incomes below $20,000. Of Linfield’s nearly 1,400 undergraduate students on its McMinnville campus last year, 27% were Pell Grant recipients.
