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The Top 5 Universities in The US

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Feb 10, 2022
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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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