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This year, U.S. News & World Report is publishing its fourth annual Best Undergraduate Computer Science Programs rankings. These rankings are based solely on the judgments of deans and senior faculty members of computer science departments at institutions around the country who participated in a peer assessment survey.To have received the survey and be ranked, an institution’s computer science department must have met at least one of these two criteria:House a computer science bachelor’s degree…

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The 2024 edition of U.S. News Best Colleges will be released Monday, Sept. 18 on usnews.com, with pre-orders accepted for the accompanying print guidebook. While many assume the work happens shortly ahead of the release, in fact our rankings are the product of months of research and discussions, data collection, coding, quality assurance and analysis. The end result is a tool for understanding academic quality that is designed for four-year degree-seeking students. We strongly advise users to co…

To produce the Best Colleges rankings, U.S. News collects tens of thousands of data points from the schools themselves and other sources, including the U.S. Department of Education.After publication of the 2024 Best Colleges, an anomaly in the code used to output those rankings was discovered. As a result of correcting the anomaly, the rankings of 213 schools have changed from what was published on September 18, 2023. We therefore published updated rankings for those schools on October 27, 2023.…

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…

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…