Elon University Careers in Elon, NC

Elon University is a selective independent university renowned as a national model for engaged learning, along with excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and professional programs. Elon is located on a 600-acre campus in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, east of Greensboro and northwest of Raleigh/Durham. In its 2011 "America's Best Colleges" guide, U.S.News & World Report rates Elon the #2 Southern University and among the top 86 colleges and universities in the nation "where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching." Newsweek-Kaplan named Elon the nation's "leader in engaged learning" and one of 25 featured colleges in its 2010 guide, and Princeton Review ranks Elon among the nation's 373 "best colleges." Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, USA Today, Princeton Review and the Fiske Guide to Colleges all name Elon one of the nation's "best value" private universities.