U.S. News Best Colleges 2022-2023

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Deciding where to apply for college is not easy. But the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, now in their 38th year, can help. Our latest edition assessed an all-time high of 1,500 U.S. bachelor's degree-granting institutions on 17 measures of academic quality. The comparisons are useful for crafting a shortlist of institutions to examine more closely and may also highlight new options.

U.S. News' directory of institutions contains each school's rankings data and key characteristics about majors, campus life, costs of attending, and more. 

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We calculated 10 distinct overall rankings where colleges and universities were grouped by their academic missions. For each ranking, the sum of weighted, normalized values across 17 indicators of academic quality determine each school's overall score and, by extension, its overall rank.

The top performer(s) in each ranking displays an overall score of 100. Others' overall scores are on a 0-99 scale reflecting the distance from their ranking's top-performing school(s). Those placing outside the top 75% display their ranking's bottom quartile range (e.g., No. 90-120) instead of their individual ranks (e.g., No. 102).

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Here are the best colleges in the U.S.

Princeton University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard University

Stanford University

Yale University

University of Chicago

Johns Hopkins University

University of Pennsylvania

California Institute of Technology

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