College and University Rankings: United States

Self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure sustainability performance. Includes over 100 colleges and universities worldwide.

Also known as "Shanghai Ranking." Produced by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CWCU) and published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Includes World's Top 500 Universities, World’s Top 200 Universities in five broad subject fields, and World’s Top 200 Universities in five ranked subjects.

Rankings based on alumni feedback from colleges in U.S. Includes Top 277 schools. Guidebook available for sale in addition to subscriber access.

Rankings by Forbes in conjunction with the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP.) 650 schools are included. Twelve factors used to calculate rankings, each of which falls into one of five general categories.

Lists institutions in the United States which received the largest portion of NSF Funding. Includes number of awards and amount of funding per award for each institution.

Schools in the United States ranked on the economic value students receive per dollar. NOTE: See also 'College Rankings (Washington Monthly.)’

Print edition owned by the library; online edition is abbreviated. Includes over 1,300 colleges in the United States. Lists include National universities Rankings, National Liberal Arts Colleges Rankings, Regional rankings and others. U.S. News & World Report also publishes Best Global Universities and Best Graduate Schools.

Print edition owned by the library and available online. Surveyed 130,000 students at 379 top colleges in the U.S. Included are Top 20 colleges in 62 categories.

Print edition owned by the library; online edition is abbreviated. Rankings of professional-school programs in business, education, engineering, law and medicine. Also includes rankings of programs in science, social sciences, humanities, and other areas. U.S. News & World Report also publishes Best Colleges and Best Global Universities.

A '‘value added’ ranking of two and four-year colleges. Value-added refers to the relative contribution made by schools to alumni economic success.

From the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands. Measures the scientific performance of 750 major universities worldwide.

From Center for World University Rankings, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Uses eight objective and robust indicators to rank the world's top 1,000 universities: Rankings also available by region and country.

Includes lists of institutions based on tuition, fees and net prices (price of attendance after considering all grant and scholarship aid) charged to students. Lists were generated using data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

Includes Best Colleges for the Money, Overall Best Colleges, Best Colleges for Veterans, Best Sports Colleges, Most Diverse Colleges, and College Rankings by Major. Cover schools in the United States.

Rankings based on feedback from current college students. Includes Top 10 schools in the United States of happiest students, famous faculty, hipster colleges and much more.

Schools in the United States ranked on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country.) Washington Monthly also publishes Best Bang for the Buck Rankings (Washington Monthly.)

From the Sustainable Endowments Institute. The College Sustainability Report Card is also known as the "Green Report Card." Provides sustainability profiles for hundreds of colleges in all 50 U.S. states and Canada. Report Cards from 2007-2011; suspended in 2012.

Ranking of America's greenest colleges. Provides fair, comparative information about the most important elements of campus sustainability. Ranking is open to all four-year, degree-granting undergraduate colleges and universities in the United States.

Includes free download option of print version published in 2011 and Data Table in Excel.

Print edition owned by the library; published in 2011. Presents findings from data collected for the 2005-2006 academic year from more than 5,000 doctoral programs at 212 universities. This report also includes illustrations of how the data can be used to produce rankings of doctoral programs based on measures important to faculty, students, administrators, funders, and other stakeholders.

From Educate To Career (ETC) and Job Search Intelligence (JSI.) Ranking determined by 'economic value added' defined as being the improvement in earnings and employability of graduates; measured against the total cost of the education. Data analyzed for over 1,200 U.S. accredited 4 year colleges, with annual enrollments greater than 1,000 students.

From PhDs.org. Rank graduate programs at 1,600 U.S. universities.

In 2014 only articles and reviews in science and social sciences journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the 11-year period 2002-2012 were surveyed and only Highly Cited Papers were considered. Highly Cited Papers are defined as those that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year indexed in the Web of Science, which is generally but not always year of publication.

From Kiplinger.com. Compare 100 top values in U.S. public colleges and universities, or create custom lists of individual colleges or schools from a particular state. Ranking based on combination of academic quality and affordability.

U.S. colleges ranked on 18 factors in three categories: Quality of Education, Affordability and Outcomes. Also includes other rankings: Top 25 Best Public Colleges, Top 25 Best Private Colleges, and more.

Measures top colleges’ efforts on economic diversity. The Upshot calculated a College Access Index which measures efforts to enroll lower-income students. Covers schools in the United States.

Rankings based on number of papers published in 2013 from institutions included in listing. Rankings only include primary research papers that were published as "Articles, Letters and Brief Communications" in Nature and/or Nature monthly research journals. Nature also publishes the top institutions in the Asia-Pacific Region and reports for Australia, China, Japan and Korea.

Covers the United States. Data is gathered from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the National Center for Education Statistics.

From CampusGrotto.com. The 100 most expensive colleges in U.S. by total cost (total cost = Tuition + Room and Board + Required Fees.)

Top 25 colleges and universities in the United States that produced the most Peace Corps volunteers. Rankings include large, medium and small colleges and universities. Also included are Top 5 graduate schools and historical data.

From Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Includes World University Rankings (also with comparisons by region, subject, or factors such as reputation or research citations), University Rankings: Asia, University Rankings: Latin America, University Rankings: BRICS and Top 50 under 50 (world’s top 50 universities established within the last 50 years.) Also includes QS Stars, a tool that evaluates universities on an individual basis.

From the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. Information contained in the Award files was obtained from the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT) from the National Institutes of Health.

Produced by Cybermetrics Lab, a research group of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. Ranking Web of World Universities is also known as "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities." Includes more than 20,000 higher education institutions ranked in world, region and by country

Developed by Scimago Lab with data from Scopus. Rankings include worldwide, region and by country.

From Times Higher Education. Beginning in 2015 rankings will be developed with Elsevier's Scopus database; previously they were developed with Thomson Reuters. Includes World University Rankings World Reputation Rankings, 100 under 50 (Top 100 universities under 50 years old.), Asia University Rankings, and BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings.

From The Center for Measuring University Performance. Provides data on over 600 institutions. The Center classifies universities into groups in accord with nine institutional characteristics.

From The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine. Top 100 U.S. schools enrolling and awarding degrees to Hispanic students.

From 4 International Colleges & Universities. Includes over 11,000 colleges and universities, ranked by web popularity, in 200 countries. It is not an academic ranking.

Includes Top World Universities, and Top Universities in Asia. New ranking of Best Arab Region Universities coming Nov. 4, 2014. U.S. News & World Report also publishes Best Colleges and Best Graduate Schools.

From Universitas Indonesia. Provides a world ranking of university sustainability.

Launched in 2014 with funding from the European Union (EU.) Headed by the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies in The Netherlands and the Centre for Higher Education in Germany. UMR is a web-based tool. The 2014 rankings include 1,210 higher education institutions from 83 countries.

From URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University in Turkey. URAP has gathered data about 2,500 Higher Education Institutes (HEI) and ranks on academic quality. Rankings include worldwide, region and by country.

See page 39 for "Top 50 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applicants: universities, 2013." From the Patent Cooperation Treaty Yearly Review (2014.)