CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? Four America East institutions are ranked among the top 100 national universities in America according to the annual U.S. News & World Report survey released Friday, August 17. Of the nation’s Division I and Football Championship Subdivisions, only the Ivy League had more institutions in the top 100.
Boston University ranked tied for the 57th position for the second-straight year, the highest rating for any of the nine America East institutions. Binghamton University (83, tie), Stony Brook University (96, tie) and University of Vermont (96, tie) were others highly rated among the national universities.
University of New Hampshire finished among the top half of the national universities with a rating of 108.
To rank colleges and universities, U.S. News first assigns schools to a group of their peers, based on the basic categories developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2006. Those in the National Universities group are the 262 American universities (164 public and 98 private) that offer a wide range of undergraduate majors as well as master’s and doctoral degrees; many strongly emphasize research.
In each category, data on up to 15 indicators of academic quality are gathered from each school and tabulated. Schools are ranked within categories by their total weighted score.
In addition, Binghamton (37), Vermont (45, tie), Stony Brook (45, tie) and New Hampshire (52, tie) ranked among the top public national universities in the country (67 ranked).
A breakdown of the top 100 by conference:
ACC - 11
Big 10 - 11
Big 12 - 8
Ivy League - 8
Big East - 7
PAC 10 - 6
SEC - 6
America East - 4
Atlantic 10 - 4
C-USA - 4
Big West - 3
Colonial - 2
Patriot League - 2
West Coast - 2
Mid-American - 1
Mid-Eastern - 1
Mountain West - 1
Sun Belt - 1
For more information on the America East Academics, log on to the conference’s official website www.AmericaEast.com.