Ranking US Universities

Higher education is a competitive space in the United States, with over 5,000 Higher Education institutions in the nation, Universities must excel in various areas to be ranked in the top. Here is a breakdown of the annual top 5 colleges ranked by US News. US News & World Report has measured 1,466 institutions in the US offering bachelor’s degrees on the ranking factors and subfactors detailed in this blog.

The Ranking Critera

• Graduation and retention rates

• Average six-year graduation rate

• Average first year student retention rate

• Social mobility

• Pell grant graduation rates

• Pell grant graduation rate performance

• Graduation rate performance

• Undergraduate academic reputation

• Peer assessment survey

• Faculty resources for 2020-2021 academic year

• Class size index

• Faculty compensation

• Percent faculty with terminal degree in their field

• Percent faculty that is full time

• Student-faculty ratio

• Student selectivity for the fall 2020 entering class

• Math and evidence-based reading and writing portions of the sat and the composite act scores

• High school class standing in top 10%

• High school class standing in top 25%

• Acceptance rate

• Financial resources per student

• Average alumni giving rate

• Graduate indebtedness

• Graduate indebtedness total

• Graduate indebtedness proportion with debt

The Rankings

Here are the rankings:

1. Princeton University
   Princeton university’s ranking in the 2022 edition of best colleges is national universities, #1. The total undergraduate enrollment at Princeton in fall 2020 was 4,773 students and their campus size is 600 acres. Tuition and fees at Princeton are $56,010 per year.

2. Columbia University
   Columbia university’s ranking in the 2022 edition of best colleges is national universities, #2. The total undergraduate enrollment at Columbia in 2020 was 6,170 students and their campus size is 36 acres. Tuition and fees at Columbia are $63,530 per year.

3. Harvard University
   Harvard university’s ranking in the 2022 edition of best colleges is national universities, #2. The total undergraduate enrollment at Harvard in 2020 was 5,222 students, and the campus size is 5,076 acres. Tuition and fees at Harvard are $55,587.

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   Massachusetts Institute of technology’s ranking in the 2022 edition of best colleges is national universities, #2. The total undergraduate enrollment at MIT in 2020 is 4,361 students, and the campus size is 168 acres. Tuition and fees at MIT are $55,878 per year.

5. Yale University
   Yale University ranking in the 2022 edition of best colleges is national universities, #5. The total undergraduate enrollment at Yale in 2020 was 4,703 students, and the campus size is 373 acres. Tuition and fees at Yale are $59,950 per year.

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