• Ball State's number one wireless campus and technology-savvy "digital natives" were featured in USA Today.

• Our undergraduate entrepreneurship program was ranked sixth in the nation for entrepreneurship by U.S.News & World Report.

• Ball State was recognized as a university committed to diversity by Minority Access at its annual National Role Models conference.

• Ball State's finance program was ranked 11th nationally for quality teaching in an independent study published in the spring 2006 issue of Advances in Financial Education.

• U.S.News & World Report recognized Ball State as having one of the best undergraduate business programs in the nation in the 2006 rankings.

• Ball State telecommunications students earned a gold Student Academy Award in 2006 for the second consecutive year.

• The university received $38 million in private giving for 2005–06.

• Princeton Review named Ball State a "Best in the Midwest" and "Best Value College."

• Ball State's Department of Landscape Architecture was ranked as the fifth best undergraduate program in the nation and the best in the Midwest in the 2007 edition of "America's Best Architecture and Design Schools."

• The Department of Educational Leadership was ranked by Leadership Excellence magazine as one of the nation's top leadership development programs, along with Duke University, Harvard University, and MIT.

• Our interactive "Experience Ball State" Web site received a silver Circle of Excellence Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

• The McKinley Safety Improvement Project, which transformed a campus thoroughfare into a welcoming focal point, received three national and state awards.

• Ball State was recognized as one of eight schools in the country with top broadcasting programs in a book by communications and media author Leonard Mogel.

• The Ball State University Foundation's three-year average investment returns on endowments of 15.9 percent was ranked in the top 7 percent of all reporting colleges and universities nationwide in a 2006 study by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.