Covid casualty: Established in 1911 to educate women who were denied access to higher education, long-struggling Pine Manor College is being absorbed by elite Jesuit institution Boston College. Thus, our grades give a prepandemic snapshot of private college financial health. Oglethorpe University, a liberal arts college in suburban Atlanta, has made a big comeback in the last five years. It received a failing grade in our 2016 financial grades, which averaged two years of financial data from the 2013 and 2014 fiscal years. Last May, S&P revised its outlook on Providence’s debt to negative from stable, though its rating remained at a single A.Forbes College Financial Grades are based on the following nine components:1.

Source: Forbes February 22, 2021 11:26 UTC