ALBION, Mich. –Improving upon last year's ranking as Michigan's #1 Wired Liberal Arts College, Albion College is recognized in the May issue of Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, Top Wired Colleges and Universities of 2000, as the number-one wired college in the state and number-seven nationally.

Yahoo's! issue hit newsstands April 18 and separated the Top 100 Colleges from the Top 100 Universities. Albion College's number-seven national ranking is the only Michigan campus in the Top 50 of either category.

Helping propel Albion to this lofty status is its commitment to serving students with; an internet port for every student in his/her residence, online registration and class schedules, a high ratio of computers per student, a large percentage of new computers on campus, the first vice president of information technology on a Michigan liberal arts campus, and much more.

To see a list of the Top 100 Wired Colleges of 2000 online, see http://www.zdnet.com/yil/url/0005/wiredcolleges.html.

For more on Albion's Information Technology department, see www.albion.edu/itoncampus.

For local news media coverage of Albion's achievement, read the Jackson Citizen Patriot online story at http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000412jalbion152.frm

Of special note: Yahoo! has also rated the Top 10 College sites for businesses geared toward attracting and servicing college students. One of  the highest ranked is InternshipPrograms.com, a company founded in 1998 by Albion College graduate Chris Houtzer, '98.

To see the list of the Top College sites see: http://www.zdnet.com/yil/url/0005/topten.html.

For more background on Albion alumnus Chris Houtzer, visit Briton SportsNet, the internet connection to Albion College's statewide radio football network. Houtzer was featured during Week Three of the 1999 season (http://sportsnet.albion.edu/NetWk3.htm).

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