Robert Morse

Here's some background on reasons you see position changes in the 2025 Best Colleges rankings.

Here is a breakdown of what goes into the annual rankings.

Prospective students can use the new edition to begin their college search.

On Tuesday, June 25, U.S. News will release the 2024-2025 Best Global Universities rankings, which focus on academic research and reputation. This ranking allows students to see how universities stack up against the global competition. Students can use these rankings to compare universities – including U.S. colleges – globally, regionally and within their own country, as well as by field of study.The overall Best Global Universities ranking will encompass 2,250 top universities, up from 2,000 la…

As we continue to evolve our rankings to produce the best available data in a clear, easy-to-understand format for students considering applying to medical school, we are pleased to announce the upcoming publication of the 2024 Best Medical Schools. There will be specialty rankings based on data from the American Academy of Family Physicians on practicing in primary care fields, comparing schools on their student diversity, and producing graduates who practice in rural and medically underserved…

On June 18, 2024, U.S. News will publish its 2024 Best Engineering Schools rankings, including an overall ranking of nearly 200 doctorate-granting schools of engineering. Rankings across 13 specialties, such as chemical engineering and mechanical engineering, will also be published.In line with last year’s revamped methodology, half of each school’s rank is based on research activity, while the remaining combined factors comprise the other half. U.S. News favors this approach because research pr…

On April 23, U.S. News will publish the 2024 Best High Schools rankings, which will include searchable profiles on nearly 25,000 public high schools.Among them, close to 18,000 eligible schools will be ranked using six indicators. The highest-ranked will be those with students that demonstrated outstanding outcomes above expectations on state assessments, participated in and passed a diverse array of college-level exams, and graduated in high proportions.The six measures and the weights that det…

During our regular rankings pre-publication process, U.S. News received and is currently reviewing queries from some graduate schools, including whether and to what extent affiliated institutions were considered in the bibliometric data used in the 2024 Best Medical Schools and 2024 Best Engineering Schools rankings, and which accrediting body was used as a source of reference for the 2024 Best Clinical Psychology Programs rankings. We take our role as a journalism enterprise very seriously and…

New rankings of business, education, engineering, law, medical and nursing programs will be unveiled on April 9 as part of the 2024 edition of Best Graduate Schools. The rankings and data for these disciplines are derived from survey data that schools reported to U.S. News in fall 2023 and early 2024, in some cases combined with third party-sourced information. Detailed methodologies will be published in the ranking methodologies section of usnews.com.For the first time since 2020, the website w…

We firmly believe that more data benefits everyone. We want to ensure that students, as they are making important life decisions, have access to the information they need to make informed choices.As we continue to evolve our rankings to produce the best available data in a clear, easy-to-understand format for students considering applying to medical school, we will be making the following changes to the 2024 Best Medical Schools rankings and data collection process. These changes are a result of…