<p>St. Joe's is not as well known in our area as some of the other major Jesuit Schools in the Northeast, Fordham, Scranton, Loyola. Does anyone else find this to be true?</p>
<p>Well, let looks at how USN&WR looks at these school: Most are in the Regional categories (good local schools with some graduate programs). St. Joe’s is ranked #8 and tied with Scranton in the Northeast, Fairfield is #2, Loyola is ranked 3rd. These schools are all in the same category and should be looked at and compared as a group. Keep in mind these are all very good schools and a good education can be had at all.</p>
<p>Jesuit Universities that are in the National Research group (major reserach school offering a wide range of PhDs) are in a much bigger group that includes all the major state schools, major private and Ivy league. Here you will find Notre Dame at #19, Georgetown at #27, Fordham at #53 and Marquette at #82.</p>
<p>St. Joe’s and Scranton are well known in PA. Not so much outside of that, but still very good schools.</p>
<p>FYI: Notre Dame is not a Jesuit university.</p>
<p>Also, Jesuit colleges in the mid-west (Creighton, John Carroll, Xavier) and west (Santa Clara, Gonzaga, Seattle) regions consistantly receive high rankings yet have lesser name recognition outside those regions… Except maybe Gonzaga’s basketball team.</p>
<p>FWIW I often include Notre Dame as not only is it the #1 Catholic school, “The university’s first academic curriculum was modeled after the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum from Saint Louis University.”(Notre Dame-Wikipedia), so a Jesuit connection.</p>
<p>Most kids when they look at SJU usually only look at Jesuit/Catholic schools in the North-Northeast. I would think Fairfield, Scranton, Villanova, Loyola and Fordham are overlaps.
Santa Clara, Gonzaga, and Seattle are all fine Jesuit schools but too far West for kids considering SJU.</p>
<p>I would think that students interested in going to Boston College, a great Jesuit school, would take a look at Saint Joseph’s. The schools are very much alike, both Jesuit, on the fring of a major city, located in nice areas, with great spirit, and very nice campus settings.</p>
<p>That is true.</p>
<p>RamRay always likes to forget College of the Holy Cross.</p>
<p>AH, but folks from Holy Cross never let me forget! ;^)</p>
<p>Yes, my bad, but keep in mind while I was talking about National Universities and regional ones, Holy Cross is a top Liberal Arts college and not in the groups I was offering for comparison.</p>