NGU Announces Enrollment Increase
North Greenville Moves Up in Annual Rankings
NGU continues to ascend in the annual US News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, improving two spots in the 2025 report.
Ranking 34th in the report’s Best Regional Universities (South) category, North Greenville is listed sixth among 16 South Carolina schools, tied with Anderson University and Coastal Carolina. This is the highest rating the university has received in its region, which included 133 schools in 2024.
“We are blessed to continue to be recognized as one of the top universities in the state of South Carolina,” said NGU President Dr. Gene C. Fant, Jr. “Rankings never tell the full story, but they do underscore North Greenville’s unwavering commitment to cultivating and equipping transformational leaders for church and society. That is the mission we are living out each day in Tigerville.”
NGU continues to be recognized as a Top Performer in Social Mobility, improving six spots in the metric and ranking 16th out of 132 universities. The Social Mobility category analyzes schools who enroll and graduate large proportions of students who are awarded Pell Grants. North Greenville enrolled 697 Pell Grant recipients during the 2023-24 school year and 810 recipients for 2024-25. The university currently has a Pell Grant graduation rate of 72 percent and ranks sixth out of 16 South Carolina schools in the Social Mobility metric. NGU is committed to investing in students by assisting first-generation college students through its Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The QEP aims to provide knowledge of university resources and connect first-generation students with a support system that will help students complete their degrees. U.S. News & World Report also recognized NGU as a Best Value School (Regional Universities in the South) and one of the Best Colleges for Veterans (Regional Universities in the South). NGU placed 36th and 34th respectively in these categories. “There are many schools I could have chosen, but all the arrows were pointing to North Greenville. I kept hearing that NGU had an awesome teaching program that sent teachers out to local areas. I knew that’s what I wanted to do.” said Frank Signor, a sophomore education major who served 17 years in the United States Marine Corps. “The instructors have been amazing. I enjoy the fact that I can come to them with questions and I’m able to get clarity right then.”
Now in its 40th year, the U.S. News & World Report rankings evaluate nearly 1,500 national colleges and universities on up to 17 measures of academic quality and place an emphasis on social mobility and outcomes for graduating college students.
NGU announced its largest overall enrollment since the pandemic in the fall, welcoming more than 2,300 students. “I am deeply grateful for the vigorous effort from our enrollment and student services teams that allowed us to experience this enrollment growth, but I am also keenly aware that we teach students, not numbers,” said NGU President Dr. Gene C. Fant, Jr. “NGU is a special community where God intersects lives and calling to generate transformational leaders and we look forward to seeing how these students are impacted by their time at the university.”
In addition, NGU added more than 545 freshmen and transfer students to its main campus in Tigerville. The class represents 10 countries and 27 states.
“I’m grateful for the traditional admissions team members and our Director for Traditional Admissions, Katie Lynn Marshall, for the role they each played in assisting our new students and families this recruitment year,” said Chad Peters, NGU Vice President for Enrollment and Marketing/Communications. “In addition to the admissions team, I’m thankful for the numerous campus partners that play a vital role in helping our students. I’m excited to see how God is going to move throughout our campus this academic year as our students pursue the calling God has for them.”
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