This year's methodology includes consideration of new student debt metrics, social mobility and inclusion of test-blind institutions. The weighting of outcomes has also increased.

Princeton retains sole possession of the top spot for National Universities, and Williams College tops the list of Liberal Arts Colleges.

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U.S. News and World Report Ranking Changes (2021 vs 2020)

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• InstitutionRank (2021)Rank (2020)Change Princeton 1 1 Harvard 2 2 Columbia 3 3 MIT 4 3 1Yale 4 3 1Stanford 6 6 University of Chicago 6 6 University of Pennsylvania 8 6 2Caltech 9 12 3Johns Hopkins 9 10 1Northwestern 9 9 Duke 12 10 2Dartmouth 13 12 1Brown 14 14 Vanderbilt 14 15 1Rice 16 17 1Washington University in St. Louis 16 19 3Cornell 18 17 1Notre Dame 19 15 4UCLA 20 20 Emory 21 21 UC Berkeley 22 22 Georgetown 23 24 1University of Michigan 24 25 1USC 24 22 2Carnegie Mellon 26 25 1University of Virginia 26 28 2UNC Chapel Hill 28 29 1Wake Forest 28 27 1NYU 30 29 1Tufts 30 29 1UC Santa Barbara 30 34 4University of Florida 30 34 4University of Rochester 34 29 5Boston College 35 37 2Georgia Tech 35 29 6UC Irvine 35 36 1UC San Diego 35 37 2UC Davis 39 39 William & Mary 39 40 1Tulane 41 40 1Boston University 42 40 2Brandeis 42 40 2Case Western 42 40 2University of Wisconsin - Madison 42 46 4UT Austin 42 48 6University of Georgia 47 50 3University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 47 48 1Lehigh 49 50 1Northeastern University 49 40 9Pepperdine 49 50 1University of Miami 49 57 8
• InstitutionRank (2021)Rank (2020)Change Williams 1 1 Amherst 2 2 Swarthmore 3 3 Pomona 4 5 1Wellesley 4 3 1Bowdoin 6 6 Claremont McKenna 6 7 1Naval Academy 6 17 11Carleton 9 7 2Hamilton 9 14 5Middlebury 9 7 2Washington and Lee 9 10 1Grinnell 13 14 1Vassar 13 14 1Colby 15 11 4Davidson 15 17 2Haverford 15 11 4Smith 15 11 4West Point 15 21 6Colgate 20 17 3Wesleyan 20 17 3Barnard 22 25 3Bates 22 21 1University of Richmond 22 23 1Colorado College 25 27 2Harvey Mudd 25 23 2Kenyon 27 27 Macalester 27 25 2Air Force Academy 28 39 11Bryn Mawr 28 27 1Scripps 28 33 5Soka University of America 28 27 1Berea College 33 46 13Bucknell 34 35 1Mount Holyoke 34 32 2Holy Cross 36 27 9Oberlin 36 33 3Pitzer 36 35 1Skidmore 36 39 3Lafayette 40 39 1Occidental 40 39 1Thomas Aquinas 40 35 5Franklin & Marshall 43 38 5Denison 44 43 1Trinity College 44 46 2Union College 44 45 1DePauw University 47 46 1Dickinson 47 46 1Sewanee 47 43 4Whitman College 47 46 1

This year U.S. News revised its criteria to place greater emphasis on student outcomes, eliminating factors such as the percentage of alumni who donate to their alma maters and the percentage of first-year students who ranked highly in their high school class. In their place are measures of graduation rates, how much graduates earn compared to high school graduates and the median debt among graduates with federal loans, among others.

Elon is ranked among the top universities in the nation, with a

1 ranking for undergraduate teaching and a

13 ranking for “most innovative” university. The 2024 rankings are included in the annual U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” guide.

Elon is ranked

1 in the nation for excellence in teaching.

As the

1 ranked national university for undergraduate teaching, Elon leads a group of outstanding universities committed to teaching excellence, including Georgia State University, Brown University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Rice University, The College of William & Mary, Boston College, Duke University and Howard University.

Schools in the National Universities category offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master’s and doctoral programs. Elon moved to the category in 2019 after it was classified as a Doctoral/Professional University by the Carnegie Classification of Colleges. The top schools in the National Universities category this year are (in rank order) Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Stanford University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, California Institute of Technology, Duke University, Brown University, Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern University.

Elon is also ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the

13 most innovative national university. Schools in the top 12 include (in rank order) Arizona State University, Georgia State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Purdue University, Northeastern University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, University of Michigan and California Institute of Technology. North Carolina A&T University is

25 and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is

38.

This year’s

1 national ranking for teaching excellence is a testament to the strong relationships faculty mentors build with their students inside and outside the classroom. Teaching and mentorship are central to an Elon education, and with the support of staff across the university, Elon’s highly skilled faculty are impacting the lives of their students on a daily and lifelong basis.

For the ninth straight year, Elon is the leader in the “Programs to Look For” feature – the only college or university ranked in all eight categories of academic programs linked to student success and positive learning outcomes.

• 1 Learning Communities

• 1 First-Year Experiences

• 3 Service Learning

• 4 Study Abroad

• 8 Internships/Co-ops

• 9 Senior Capstone

• 11 Undergraduate Research/Creative Projects

• 12 Writing in the Disciplines

With Elon ranked in the top 20 in eight categories, other highly ranked institutions include Duke University, ranked in the top 20 in seven categories, Agnes Scott in the top 20 in six categories, and Brown University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan and Yale University were each ranked in five categories.

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