Best of the Midwest section of its "2021 Best Colleges Region by Region".
== Athletics ==
The St. Ambrose athletic teams are called the Fighting Bees. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) for most of its sports since the 2015–16 academic year. Meanwhile, its football team has competed in the Midwest League of the Mid-States Football Association (MSFA) since 1996 but announced in 2023 that they will move to the Heart of America Athletic Conference (HAAC) in 2024 as an associate member, just as its men's wrestling team has been since 2021. Its men's & women's lacrosse teams compete in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC), and its men's and women's eSports teams compete in the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE). The Fighting Bees previously competed in the defunct Midwest Collegiate Conference (MCC) from 1990–91 to 2014–15 (when the conference dissolved).
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