2021, The Princeton Review included Mills in the following lists and ranked Mills in the following categories:
The Best 386 Colleges
Best Western (regional colleges)
Green Colleges
No. 9 for Administrators Get Low Marks
No. 13 Most Liberal Students
No. 14 LGBTQ-Friendly
No. 15 for Stone-Cold Sober Students
No. 20 for Least Religious Students
In 2020, Washington Monthly ranked Mills sixth out of 614 schools on its Master's Universities list, based on its contribution to the public good as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.
In 2019, Forbes included Mills as one of the 650 best schools in the United States out of a possible 4,300 degree-granting postsecondary institutions. Forbes ranked Mills as follows:
No. 343 in Top Colleges 2019
No. 227 in Private Colleges
No. 70 in the West
== Student life ==
=== Student body demographics ===
For the 2018–19 academic year, Mills student body included 1,255 students, with 766 undergraduate women and 489 graduate students of all genders. …
