Azusa Pacific University secured a place in the most prestigious category of?U.S. News & World Report?s?America?s Best Colleges?2016 rankings, placing in Tier One at No. 175 in the National Universities category. In addition, The Princeton Review named APU as 1 of 124 institutions in the 2016?Best Colleges in the West, and G.I. Jobs named APU a?Military Friendly School?for 2016, placing APU among the top 15 percent of schools in the country helping military students reach their educational dreams.