To be included in the Top 29, a university must be ranked in the Top 60 of at least three lists: Top Universities, Appily, Niche, and Times Higher Education. Neither CollegeVine nor US News ranked Communication schools.

The reduced number of sites allows schools to be excluded even though they are highly ranked in one or two sites. For instance, Georgia is #7 in Niche but does not qualify for the list below.

Comm RK	School	AVG	RK	DIFF
1	Harvard University	2.3	1	0
2	Stanford University	2.7	3	1
3	University of Pennsylvania	5.3	6	3
4	University of Southern California	6.0	22	18
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7.3	2	-3
6	Northwestern University	7.3	14	8
7	University of Texas at Austin	8.3	32	25
8	University of Michigan	10.0	16	8
9	University of California, Los Angeles	11.3	15	6
10	New York University	11.3	25	15
11	University of California, Berkeley	12.3	11	0
12	Cornell University	13.3	8	-4
13	University of Wisconsin – Madison	13.3	27	14
14	Brown University	15.7	17	3
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	17.0	26	11
16	Columbia University	18.7	7	-9
17	University of Washington	19.0	19	2
18	Michigan State University	19.0	47	29
19	Johns Hopkins University	20.3	9	-10
20	Boston University	22.3	35	15
21	University of Florida	26.0	34	13
22	Georgetown University	27.0	30	8
23	Indiana University	27.0	50	27
24	Duke University	27.0	13	-11
25	Arizona State University	29.3	61	36
26	Vanderbilt University	30.7	20	-6
27	University of California, Santa Barbara	31.3	41	14
28	Carnegie Mellon University	32.3	23	-5
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	34.0	28	-1

Biggest Gainers

Arizona State University (+36), Michigan State University (+29), and Indiana (+27) all make it into the Top 25 communications.

Texas (+25) and USC (+18) make leaps into the Top 10 and 5, respectively.