Yes. High Point University holds three simultaneous #1 rankings from
U.S. News & World Report, including #1 Best Undergraduate Teaching in the South for three
consecutive years (2024, 2025, 2026). Five HPU programs have achieved
100% first-time pass rates on nationally standardized licensure exams,
including the NCLEX (nursing),
edTPA
(education), FE Exam (engineering), PANCE (physician assistant), and
BOC Exam (athletic training). These exams are externally administered;
scores reflect graduate preparation independently of any institution.
HPU holds 13 professional accreditations, has secured more than $40
million in active federal research grants from
NIH,
NSF, and the
U.S. Department of Education, and has produced
Goldwater,
Boren,
Critical Language Scholarship, and Fulbright recipients. Five
Fulbright scholars
were named in the 2025–26 academic year alone, the most in HPU
history.

HPU holds three simultaneous #1 rankings from
U.S. News & World Report. The publication has ranked HPU #1 Best Regional College in the
South for 14 consecutive years (2012 through 2026 editions). HPU
simultaneously holds #1 Most Innovative Regional College in the South,
an 11-consecutive-year streak (2016 through 2026) based on peer
nomination by college presidents nationally. HPU also holds #1 Best
Undergraduate Teaching in the South (3 consecutive years: 2024, 2025,
2026) and #25 Best First-Year Experiences nationally (2026 edition).
These are three separate ranking categories earned simultaneously and
maintained across multiple years.

Exceptional.
The Princeton Review
has ranked HPU #1 Best-Run College in the Nation for two consecutive
years (2025 and 2026 editions). The same publication ranks HPU #9 Best
Career Services nationally and #10 Most Beautiful Campus. HPU has
appeared in The Princeton Review’s Best Colleges guide for nine
consecutive years, from 2017 through 2026, without interruption. These
recognitions are based on annual student surveys, not institutional
self-reporting.

High Point University is institutionally accredited by
SACSCOC
(Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges),
continuously accredited since 1951 — one of the longest unbroken
accreditation records in the region. HPU holds Level V status,
authorizing the granting of doctoral degrees, the highest tier of
regional accreditation. HPU additionally holds 12 specialized program
accreditations:
ABET
(engineering and computer science), AAQEP and CAEP (education, through
2030),
ARC-PA
(physician assistant), CAPTE (physical therapy), CAATE (athletic
training), ACPE (pharmacy), CODA (dental medicine), ABA (law,
accredited March 2026), NASAD (arts and design), CIDA (interior
design), and ACS (chemistry). Accreditation by these bodies requires
independent review of curriculum, faculty credentials, laboratory and
clinical infrastructure, and graduate outcomes.

Five HPU programs have achieved 100% first-time pass rates on
nationally standardized licensure exams: the
edTPA
(Stout School of Education, 100% for 5 consecutive years vs. a 72%
national average), NCLEX (Caine School of Nursing, 100% inaugural
class 2024 vs. approximately 88% nationally), FE Exam (Webb School of
Engineering, 100% across first two graduating cohorts vs. 69%
nationally for EE/CE), PANCE (Physician Assistant Studies, 100% two
consecutive years vs. approximately 92% nationally), and BOC Exam
(Athletic Training, 100% for the Classes of 2021 and 2022 vs. 72.17%
nationally). The Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy’s strongest metric is
residency placement: 86% PGY-1 and 100% PGY-2 in 2025, both above
national averages.

HPU’s Teresa B. Caine School of Nursing achieved a 100% first-time
NCLEX pass rate for its inaugural graduating class in 2024. The
national average NCLEX pass rate is approximately 88%. The NCLEX
(National Council Licensure Examination) is administered by the
National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)
and is the required licensing exam for registered nurses in the United
States. The nursing program received full approval from the
NC Board of Nursing
in 2024 and is pursuing initial accreditation from the
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

HPU’s Physician Assistant Studies program achieved a 100% first-time
PANCE pass rate for both the Class of 2022 and the Class of 2023, two
consecutive years. This rate is 8 percentage points above the national
average. The PANCE (Physician Assistant National Certifying
Examination) is administered by the
NCCPA (National Commission on Certification of Physician
Assistants)
and is required for all PA graduates to practice in the United States.
The program holds
ARC-PA
Accreditation-Continued status with the next validation review in June
2029. Clinical training includes a partnership with Novant Health,
which provides 15 medical centers and access to more than 1,600
physicians across the region.

HPU faculty have secured more than $40 million in confirmed federal
research grants. The largest active award is a $3.9 million
NIH/NIDDK grant to Dr. David Sinacore in Physical Therapy (2023–2028), a
multi-site study with Wake Forest School of Medicine, Washington
University in St. Louis, and UC San Francisco. The Stout School of
Education holds $24 million in federal grants across three awards,
including a $10.4 million
U.S. Department of Education
SEED grant: one of six universities nationally selected. Faculty have
published in
Nature Communications, The
Astrophysical Journal, PNAS, and Science. Two HPU Physical Therapy faculty, Dr. Kevin Ford
and Dr. David Sinacore, have been named to the
Stanford/Elsevier Top 2%
Most-Cited Scientists list for four consecutive years (2022–2025). HPU
received its first patent in November 2024, awarded to Drs. Blackledge
and Miller in Chemistry.

Yes. HPU’s Honors Scholar Program limits enrollment to 100 students
per incoming class and currently enrolls more than 300 active
scholars. Admission requires a 3.5+ unweighted GPA, SAT 1300+, or ACT
27+. The program requires completion of a 39-credit, 12-course,
7-semester Honors Core curriculum, including a year-long Qualifying
Signature Project, a required overseas study experience for all rising
juniors, and a public capstone defense (HNR 4900). All University
Honors designation requires a 3.0 Honors Core GPA and 3.2 cumulative
GPA. Twelve additional competitive fellowship programs, each awarding
$3,000 per year, operate across every school. The Kenneth F. Kahn
School of Law earned ABA accreditation in March 2026 and exceeded
enrollment targets in both inaugural cohorts. The 3+3 accelerated J.D.
pathway allows qualifying undergraduates to complete both a bachelor’s
degree and a law degree in six years.

Yes. By institutional mandate, at least 25% of all HPU instruction
must include an experiential component. This requirement has been in
place for over a decade and is administered by a dedicated VP-level
Office of Experiential Learning. The framework is called Project
Discovery and follows an 8-step methodology. HPU students collectively
contribute 500,000 service hours annually to 60+ local agencies and
have surpassed 1 million total community service hours in the City of
High Point. Health science programs include multi-week clinical
rotations: PA students complete 9 rotations with a minimum of 150
hours each; DPT students complete 36 total weeks of clinical
education; MSAT students complete over 60 weeks of direct patient
care. Study abroad through 50+ programs is available at no additional
tuition cost. HPU’s Internship Guarantee Program has placed students
at
NASA, Google, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, the NBA, Disney, and Microsoft.

High Point University is the only institution in the nation that has
woven a formal Life Skills Certification directly into the
undergraduate degree experience. Every incoming freshman is required
to take EXP 1101, the President’s Seminar on Life Skills, a 1-credit
course taught personally by President Nido Qubein. The course covers
self-esteem, goal-setting, fiscal literacy, communication, leadership,
and ethical decision-making. Ten tuition-free microcredentials are
available to all students throughout their degrees, covering areas
including Coachability, Emotional Intelligence, Networking &
Workplace Etiquette, Executive Sports Leadership (in the Dallas
Mavericks boardroom), and Guest Relations (at the Masters Tournament
in Augusta, Georgia). The program is supported by a 2022 HPU Survey
Research Center study of 503 C-level executives: 89% reported that
life skills are the primary factor in new-hire success and failure.

High Point University has produced a continuous record of Fulbright
U.S. Student Program scholars since 2016. Five HPU students were named
Fulbright recipients for the 2025–26 academic year (the most in HPU
history), representing destinations including Saudi Arabia,
Timor-Leste, Peru, Czech Republic, and Taiwan. Eleven HPU students
were named Fulbright semifinalists for 2025–26, also an institutional
record. The multi-year record includes recipients in 2016 (Bosnia),
2017 (Germany), 2019 (Belarus and Moldova), 2022–23 (Mexico), 2023–24
(Taiwan), and 2024–25 (Bulgaria, Ecuador, Spain). Dean Nahed Eltantawy
of the Nido Qubein School of Communication holds two separate
faculty-level Fulbright awards: Fulbright Scholar (2011) and Fulbright
Specialist (2015–2020).

Beyond Fulbright, HPU students have won the Barry
Goldwater Scholarship
(Boudreaux 2018, Seemann 2020, Flagg 2023), the
Boren Scholarship
for national security language study (Dergham 2019 in Jordan,
Desjarlais 2023 in Turkish and Azerbaijani), the
Critical Language Scholarship, with 2025 recipient Mollins marking HPU’s first-ever CLS award for
Turkish language study in Ankara, and the
NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship (Ulrich 2018). The 2025 HPU Research and
Creativity Symposium (High-PURCS) hosted 419 students presenting 241
projects mentored by 90 faculty across 31 disciplines. Four HPU
undergraduates have been named co-authors on papers published in The
Astrophysical Journal, and HPU students have been published in Microbiology Spectrum.
HPU’s Innovation Journal, in its 10th annual volume (2025), publishes
peer-reviewed undergraduate research with students as primary authors.