U.S. News and World Report has released its annual best national university rankings with Princeton University leading the way. This latest report evaluates 1,466 U.S. bachelor’s degree-granting institutions on several factors of academic quality. The ranking methodology is a combination of years of research and refinements to the approach based on data and feedback from users as well as experts in higher education. Ranking factors include weighted criteria for:
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- Graduation and retention rates
- Social mobility
- Graduation rate performance
- Undergraduate academic reputation
- Faculty resources for 2020-2021 academic year
- Student selectivity for the fall 2020 entering class
- Financial resources per student
- Average alumni giving rate
- Graduate Indebtedness
See the complete list of the best national universities according to U.S. News and World Report.
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