Providing a high-quality education is our top priority at Ridgewater, and we have the accolades to prove it. Ridgewater has been named as the 41st Best Community College out of the 1,665 colleges in the nation. Our students are successful! Our transfer students perform as well if not better than students who choose a four-year college or university. Our career and technical students have a job placement rate of over 94 percent in the last five years.