To be included in the Top 25, a university needs to be ranked in the Top 60 of at least three of the following lists: Top Universities, Appily, Niche, College Vine, Times Higher Education, and US News. I then excluded the two maximum and minimum rankings and averaged the remaining scores to determine the final ranking.
TOP 25
RK | Schools | ORK | DIFF | AVG | Min |
1 | Harvard University | 1 | 0 | 1.7 | 1 |
2 | University of Pennsylvania | 6 | 4 | 2.3 | 1 |
3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | -1 | 3.0 | 1 |
4 | New York University | 25 | 21 | 10.0 | 2 |
5 | Northwestern University | 14 | 9 | 11.7 | 3 |
6 | Boston College | 56 | 50 | 12.3 | 4 |
7 | Yale University | 5 | -2 | 12.7 | 5 |
8 | Carnegie Mellon University | 23 | 15 | 14.7 | 9 |
9 | University of Texas at Austin | 32 | 23 | 14.7 | 4 |
10 | University of Michigan | 16 | 6 | 15.0 | 3 |
11 | University of Southern California | 22 | 11 | 17.7 | 9 |
12 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 26 | 14 | 19.3 | 8 |
13 | Washington University in St. Louis | 21 | 8 | 21.0 | 7 |
14 | Johns Hopkins University | 9 | -5 | 27.0 | 6 |
15 | University of Notre Dame | 36 | 21 | 27.7 | 3 |
16 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 28 | 12 | 29.0 | 10 |
17 | Boston University | 35 | 18 | 30.0 | 22 |
18 | Georgetown University | 30 | 12 | 30.7 | 2 |
19 | University of Virginia | 37 | 18 | 31.3 | 12 |
20 | University of Florida | 34 | 14 | 32.0 | 14 |
21 | University of Washington | 19 | -2 | 38.7 | 18 |
22 | University of Wisconsin – Madison | 27 | 5 | 39.0 | 24 |
23 | University of Rochester | 49 | 26 | 44.3 | 26 |
24 | University of Minnesota | 39 | 15 | 44.7 | 15 |
25 | George Washington University | 70 | 45 | 45.0 | 37 |
Biggest Gainers
Finance has the largest movers to date. If you are looking into finance, pay close attention as there are new faces.
Boston College (+50) is the sixth-ranked school for finance, but it is outside the Top 50 overall.
George Washington University (+45) and the University of Rochester (+26) edge themselves into the top 25.