Nov 27, 2023
Ranked: America’s Best Universities
The latest ranking of America’s best universities is here, perfectly timed for the approaching admissions season. “Best” is of course subjective, and U.S. News and World Report has compiled 19 metrics on which they evaluated more than 400 national universities. Some of them include:
- Graduation rates & performance: A four-year rolling average of the proportion of each entering class earning a bachelor’s degree in six years or less. Performance is measured against predictions made by the publishers, and when beaten, the university gains a higher scoring.
- Peer assessment: A two-year weighted average of ratings from top academics—presidents, provosts and deans of admissions—on academic quality of peer institutions with which they are familiar.
- Financial resources: The average per student spend on instruction, research, student services and related educational expenditures in the 2021 fiscal year.
- Debt: A school’s average accumulated federal loan debt among borrowers only.
- Pell graduation rates & performance: the same calculation as stated above, but focused only on Pell Grant students, adjusted to give more credit to schools with larger Pell student proportions.
The website’s methodology section details how they sourced their data, the weights assigned to each metric, and their changes over the years.
See the full article at visualcapitalist.com
Dataset
| Rank | School Name | State | Tuition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Princeton University | New Jersey | $59,710 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts | $60,156 |
| 3 | Harvard University | Massachusetts | $59,076 |
| 3 | Stanford University | California | $62,484 |
| 5 | Yale University | Connecticut | $64,700 |
| 6 | University of Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | $66,104 |
| 7 | California Institute of Technology | California | $63,255 |
| 7 | Duke University | North Carolina | $66,172 |
| 9 | Brown University | Rhode Island | $68,230 |
| 9 | Johns Hopkins University | Maryland | $63,340 |
| 9 | Northwestern University | Illinois | $65,997 |
| 12 | Columbia University | New York | $65,524 |
| 12 | Cornell University | New York | $66,014 |
| 12 | University of Chicago | Illinois | $65,619 |
| 15 | University of California, Berkeley | California | $48,465 (out-state) $15,891 (in-state) |
| 15 | University of California, LA | California | $46,326 (out-state) $13,752 (in-state) |
| 17 | Rice University | Texas | $58,128 |
| 18 | Dartmouth College | New Hampshire | $65,511 |
| 18 | Vanderbilt University | Tennessee | $63,946 |
| 20 | University of Notre Dame | Indiana | $62,693 |
| 21 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Michigan | $57,273 (out-state) $17,786 (in-state) |
| 22 | Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $65,082 |
| 22 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | North Carolina | $39,338 (out-state) $8,998 (in-state) |
| 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pennsylvania | $63,829 |
| 24 | Emory University | Georgia | $60,774 |
| 24 | University of Virginia | Virginia | $58,950 (out-state) $22,323 (in-state) |
| 24 | Washington University, St. Louis | Missouri | $62,982 |
| 28 | University of California, Davis | California | $46,043 (out-state) $15,266 (in-state) |
| 28 | University of California, San Diego | California | $48,630 (out-state) $16,056 (in-state) |
| 28 | University of Florida | Florida | $28,658 (out-state) $6,381 (in-state) |
| 28 | University of Southern California | California | $68,237 |
| 32 | University of Texas, Austin | Texas | $41,070 (out-state) $11,698 (in-state) |
| 33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Georgia | $32,876 (out-state) $11,764 (in-state) |
| 33 | University of California, Irvine | California | $47,759 (out-state) $15,185 (in-state) |
| 35 | New York University | New York | $60,438 |
| 35 | University of California, Santa Barbara | California | $45,658 (out-state) $14,881 (in-state) |
| 35 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Illinois | $36,068 (out-state) $17,572 (in-state) |
| 35 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Wisconsin | $40,603 (out-state) $11,205 (in-state) |
| 39 | Boston College | Massachusetts | $67,680 |
| 40 | Rutgers University, New Brunswick | New Jersey | $36,001 (out-state) $17,239 (in-state) |
| 40 | Tufts University | Massachusetts | $67,844 |
| 40 | University of Washington | Washington | $41,997 (out-state) $12,643 (in-state) |
| 43 | Boston University | Massachusetts | $65,168 |
| 43 | The Ohio State University | Ohio | $36,722 (out-state) $12,485 (in-state) |
| 43 | Purdue University, Main Campus | Indiana | $28,794 (out-state) $9,992 (in-state) |
| 46 | University of Maryland, College Park | Maryland | $40,306 (out-state) $11,505 (in-state) |
| 47 | Lehigh University | Pennsylvania | $62,180 |
| 47 | Texas A&M University | Texas | $40,607 (out-state) $12,413 (in-state) |
| 47 | University of Georgia | Georgia | $30,220 (out-state) $11,180 (in-state) |
| 47 | University of Rochester | New York | $64,384 |
| 47 | Virginia Tech | Virginia | $36,090 (out-state) $15,478 (in-state) |
| 47 | Wake Forest University | North Carolina | $64,758 |
| 53 | Case Western Reserve University | Ohio | $62,234 |
| 53 | Florida State University | Florida | $21,683 (out-state) $6,517 (in-state) |
| 53 | Northeastern University | Massachusetts | $63,141 |
| 53 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | Minnesota | $36,402 (out-state) $16,488 (in-state) |
| 53 | William & Mary | Virginia | $48,841 (out-state) $25,041 (in-state) |
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