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TOP 30
NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES
1. STANFORD UNIVERSITY (CA)
2. University of Pennsylvania (PA)
3. MA Institute of Technology (MA)
4. Princeton University (NJ)
5. Duke University (NC)
6. Harvard University (MA)
7. Yale University (CT)
8. Cornell University (NY)
9. University of CA-Berkeley (CA)*
10. University of Notre Dame (IN)
11. University of California-Davis (CA)*
12. Dartmouth College (NH)
13. Brigham Young University (UT)
14. California Institute of Tech. (CA)
15. Georgetown University (DC)
16. University of WI-Madison (WI)*
17. Univ. of IL-Urbana-Champaign (IL)*
18. National Louis University (IL)
19. University of WA-Seattle (WA)*
20. University of CA-San Diego (CA)*
21. University of California-LA (CA)*
22. Utah State University (UT)*
23. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
24. University of NC-Chapel Hill (NC)*
25. Columbia Univ. in the City of NY (NY)
26. University of MI-Ann Arbor (MI)*
27. Washington Univ. in St. Louis (MO)
28. VA Polytech. Inst. & State Univ. (VA)*
29. Vanderbilt University (TN)
30. Northwestern University (IL)
*Public institution
RANK IN U.S.
NEWS (2022)
6
8
2
1
9
2
5
17
22
19
38
13
79
9
23
42
47
299-391
59
34
20
249
9
28
Unranked
23
14
75
14
9
The 2022 U.S. News rankings were released in September 2021.
because we see little to no evidence of its commitment to
public service.
There are also multiple University of California and California
State campuses in the upper echelons of our rankings,
the mark of a system that, despite financial ups and
downs in recent decades, was built on a foundation of research
excellence and affordability in a state that has long
been a magnet for immigration and innovation. Rutgers
University's Newark campus stands out for enrolling an economically
diverse undergraduate class that goes on to earn
unusually high salaries in the labor market, and-probably
not coincidentally-has an unusually high rate of paying
back student loans.
There are also some familiar names at the bottom of our
national rankings. Hofstra University enjoys a solid reputation
on the Eastern Seaboard-why, we're not exactly sure.
More than a third of its students fail to graduate within six
years, and the net price of attendance for families earning
below $75,000 is absurdly high. Hofstra has little to show
in terms of research expenditures, science PhDs, or faculty
awards. Service commitments are scant. We rank it number
434 out of 442 nationwide, down among a bevy of for-profit
colleges and struggling schools.
Berea College in Kentucky is a consistent standout on
our list of best liberal arts colleges, showing that excellence
and access for first-generation students can go hand in hand.
Lafayette College in Pennsylvania gets a boost over more
traditional elite schools by staying particularly attentive to
how much it charges lower-income students and how successful
its graduates are at managing their debt after earning
degrees. The College of Saint Benedict in Minnesota has
unusual graduation rate success, given the number of Pelleligible
students it enrolls, and sends many graduates into
the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps as well as education and
other public service careers. Unlike some elite colleges, it's
not a finishing school for future financial industry profiteers.
We also rank nearly 900 master's- and bachelor'slic
purpose, our rankings are much more likely to recognize
public universities-there are six state schools in our top
20, but just one in theirs. Florida International University,
for example, ranks number 162 on the other list, mostly because
it doesn't limit enrollment to rich valedictorians, and
it was founded in the second half of the 20th century, not
the first half of the 17th. We rank FIU at number 32 because,
in addition to solid contributions in service and research,
it is very affordable and helps a large number of students
eligible for Pell Grants start their lives and careers with a
high-quality degree. Columbia University is number 2 on
the other rankings-or was, before it was de-ranked after
being caught in the kind of massive data fraud scandal our
rankings are much less vulnerable to because we rely on official
government data, not self-reported metrics that invite
abuse. We already ranked Columbia significantly lower
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granting institutions-many of them regional public universities
that serve an enormous number of students and get
little or no recognition from big-city newspapers that obsess
over dinner parties in the Ivy League. Along with whatever
the collective noun is for California State campuses (a grizzly
of high performers are in our top 10), research-rich universities
like Truman State in Missouri and SUNY Geneseo sit
atop our master's list. For-profit Academy of Art University
in San Francisco, on the other hand, ranks number 601 (out
of 603) because it charges low- to moderate-income students
$32,000 per year and has been embroiled in so many scandals,
fraud accusations, and government investigations that
space limitations do not permit their full accounting here.
Brigham Young University's innovative Idaho campus
cracks the top 10 on our bachelor's campus ranking, scoring
high on the number of undergraduates who go on to earn
PhDs. Seventh-ranked Boricua College, which was founded
by Puerto Ricans to provide a liberal arts education to

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