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2025 Best Online Programs Rankings Coming in January

Five states plus the District of Columbia get new rankings for the first time in three years due to sufficient data availability.

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Hispanic students enroll at community colleges in a far larger percentage than their respective share of the overall population.

U.S. News added important new measures to the law and medical school rankings.

U.S. News will rank the most online degrees in its history.

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U.S. News will rank the most online degrees in its history.