From 2008 to present, St. Francis College has been ranked annually in the Forbes Magazine Best Colleges List. Its rankings have ranged from 268th to 625th out of 650 national institutions of higher learning. Implicit on being in the list is that an institution already ranks in the top 15% as only 650 of more than 4,300 institutions are selected. The College is also ranked by Forbes regionally in the Northeast, as a Liberal Arts University, as a Best Value College and as a Private College.