Accolades

Evergreen has earned a national reputation for innovative teaching, academic excellence, environmental leadership, its value and welcoming campus culture plus a whole lot more!

Coveted National Rankings

Washington Monthly Emphasizes Service to Society

Evergreen earned the prestigious first place spot in 2022 ranking No. 1 out of over 600 colleges and universities across the country. Evergreen also landed the No. 4 for a Master's University and the No. 20 spot as a "Best Bang for Buck College" for 2023.

Washington Monthly ranks colleges based on three criteria:

  • Contribution to the public good in social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students)
  • Research (producing cutting-edge scholarships and PhDs)
  • Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country)

U.S. News and World Report Finds Much to Like

In 2022, U.S. News and World Report ranked Evergreen as No. 22 for Top Public Schools and No. 26 for Best Value Schools.

Princeton Review Based on Student Feedback

The Evergreen State College is not just any college, it’s one of the best colleges in the nation according to The Princeton Review, the only ranking based entirely on student feedback. Evergreen scored highly in two main categories for 2024 - Best 389 Colleges and Best Regional Colleges.

Multiple Bests from College Factual

College Factual reviews schools to match students with the most affordable, best educational fit college in the country. Evergreen earned quality rankings in numerous categories for 2023. Highlights include:

  • Best Liberal Arts, Sciences and Humanities Schools
  • Best Liberal Arts General Studies Schools
  • Best Colleges for Veterans
  • Best Liberal Arts, Sciences and Humanities Colleges for Veterans
  • Best Liberal Arts General Studies Colleges for Veterans
  • Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts, Sciences and Humanities
  • Most Focused Colleges for Liberal Arts, Sciences and Humanities

A College Geared Toward Indigenous Students

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) continues to recognize Evergreen as one of the country’s top 200 colleges for Indigenous students based on serving a sizable Native community, the number of degrees offered and the Indigenous student percentage in comparison to the state’s overall Indigenous population.

Top Accolades as Animation School

The Animation Career Review ranks nearly 200 schools with animation programs from across the United States. For 2023, here's where Evergreen scored:

  • Top 5 in Washington
  • Top 25 in the West
  • Top 25 nationally for schools offering animation-related degrees

A Good Place for Military and Veterans

The Military Friendly Schools List honors the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members and veterans as students. With a thriving Veterans Resource Center, a strong commitment to diversity of opinions and proximity to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Evergreen has become known as a welcoming place for veterans.

Member Institution in Colleges That Change Lives

Former New York Times education editor Loren Pope published the first edition of Colleges That Change Lives—40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About College in 1996. Notably, Evergreen is described as follows: "The Evergreen State College offers the most unusual undergraduate experience in the Northwest, or in any public institution anywhere. Taxpayers everywhere should demand colleges like this one that changes their children’s lives. For a public institution it is more than unusual, it is unique, because values are as important as learning and public service is strongly encouraged.”

Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges 

Evergreen is one of just 29 members of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S. and Canada. COPLAC is dedicated to the advancement of high-quality, public liberal arts education in a student-centered, residential environment and represents a distinguished sector in higher education. Evergreen is Washington’s only COPLAC member and is one of just three COPLAC institutions on the West Coast.

University HQ Best Colleges

Evergreen was named No. 18 for Best Bachelor's Degree in Washington out of 46 colleges statewide in 2023. Not too shabby!