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Forbes rated Princeton University the country's best college in its inaugural (2008) list. [1] The United States Military Academy at West Point took the top honor the following year. [ 2 ] Williams College was ranked first both in 2010 and 2011, and Princeton returned to the top spot in 2012.
The QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world's top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds published annually since 2004. In 2024, they ranked 1500 universities, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and University of Cambridge taking the top 5 spots. [15]
The Best Global Universities ranking by U.S. News & World Report is an annual ranking of world universities. On October 28, 2014, U.S. News, which began ranking American universities in 1983, published its inaugural global ranking, assessing 500 universities in 49 countries.
Among the three most watched global university rankings, the 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which includes United States' universities, started in 2003, and is based upon objective third party data. In 2021, more than 2000 institutions were scrutinized, and the best 1000 universities in the world were ranked. [6]
Rice leads the pack with $152,100, while Texas A&M University in College Station is the top public institution, with $139,700. UT Austin follows closely with $137,000, and Texas Tech with $125,200.
A University of Michigan study from 2010 found that university rankings in the United States significantly affect institutions' applications and admissions. [17] The research analyzed the effects of the U.S. News & World Report rankings, showing a lasting effect on college applications and admissions by students in the top 10% of their class. [17]
The 2017 overall ranking features the top 1,000 universities, an increase from the 750 included in the previous edition. ... More than a fifth of the top 1,000 schools in the world ...
The University of Pennsylvania comes in first if only bachelor's degrees are counted, according to the most recent 2022 Forbes report. [1] Harvard also ranks first in the number of ultra-high net worth alumni with assets greater than $30 million.