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Schools in the National Universities category, such as the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master's and doctoral programs. These colleges also are committed to producing groundbreaking research.
Best National Universities
Schools on this list offer a range of areas of study for bachelor's degrees, as well as master's and doctoral programs.
See Full Rankings ListThe National Liberal Arts Colleges, including schools like Colby College and Wesleyan University, emphasize undergraduate education and award at least half of their degrees in the liberal arts fields of study.
Best National Liberal Arts Colleges
Schools in this category focus on undergraduate education in the liberal arts fields of study.
See Full Rankings ListRegional Universities offer a full range of undergraduate programs and some master's programs but few doctoral programs. Regional Universities include Emerson College, University of Mary Washington, Butler University and University of Dallas. These rankings are split into four regions: North, South, Midwest and West.
These colleges focus on undergraduate education but grant fewer than half their degrees in liberal arts disciplines. Regional Colleges include Keystone College, Flagler College, Millikin University and Pacific Union College. These rankings are split into four regions: North, South, Midwest and West.
The undergraduate business program rankings were based solely on peer assessment surveys. To appear on these surveys, undergraduate business programs must be accredited by AACSB International.
Best Undergraduate Business Programs
These schools are all accredited by AACSB International.
Top academics and officials at computer science programs rated the overall quality of undergraduate programs with which they were familiar on a 1-5 scale. A school’s undergraduate computer science rank is solely determined by its average of scores received from these surveys. To be included in this standalone peer assessment survey and ranked, a program must either have been accredited by ABET or have recently awarded 20 or more bachelor's degrees in computer science.
Best Undergraduate Computer Science Programs
See how computer science programs across the country are ranked overall and in specialty areas.
The undergraduate engineering program rankings were based solely on peer assessment surveys. To appear on an undergraduate engineering survey, a school must have an undergraduate engineering program accredited by ABET. These programs are split into two groups: schools whose highest engineering degree offered is a doctorate and schools whose highest engineering degree offered is a bachelor's or master's.
Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs
The highest degree these schools offer is a doctorate.
Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs
The highest degree these schools offer is a bachelor's or master's.
See Full Rankings ListThese historically Black colleges and universities were compared only with one another for these rankings. To be on the list, a school must be currently designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an HBCU. To qualify for the U.S. News rankings, an HBCU also must be an undergraduate baccalaureate-granting institution that enrolls primarily first-year, first-time students and must be a school that is part of the 2022 Best Colleges rankings.
Best HBCUs
These historically Black colleges and universities were compared only with one another for these rankings.
See Full Rankings ListFor the third consecutive year on usnews.com we published a ranking of schools with outstanding examples of academic programs that are believed to lead to student success. With the help of education experts, including staff members of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, U.S. News identified eight such types of programs. In spring and summer 2021, we invited college presidents, chief academic officers, deans of students and deans of admissions from more than 1,500 schools to nominate up to 15 institutions with stellar examples of each program type. Colleges and universities that received 10 or more nominations are included in these lists in numerical rank order based on the number of ratings they received in that program.
These colleges offer most or all degrees in a single field or set of related fields. They were not ranked and are listed alphabetically.
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