America East Again Excels in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
America East institutions once again stand out in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Best College Rankings announced Monday, placing the conference among the best in the nation in the institutional rankings.
Three of the conference’s member schools rank among the top 100 national universities in the country while all eight of the conference's public institutions were chosen among the top 100 public universities nationally in the comprehensive rankings for the sixth-straight year.
"These rankings once again confirm that our member institutions rank among the finest in the country," said America East Commissioner Amy Huchthausen. "America East is comprised of like-minded institutions with similar academic profiles and aspirations and these institutions continue to offer their students what they need to be successful, just as we as a conference aim to provide our member institutions a platform upon which both collegiate and life success can be achieved.”
Need to Know
- Only three other non-FBS Division I conferences had more top-100 national universities than America East.
- America East tied for seventh overall amongst Division I's 32 conferences with three top-100 schools, up four spots from last year.
- The conference placed 33 percent of its schools in the top 100, tied for the seventh-best percentage in the country.
- All nine institutions ranked among the top 194 national universites out of 312 schools ranked.
- America East is the only non-autonomy conference with eight institutions ranked among the top 100 public institutions in the country and ranked fourth overall behind only the Big Ten, Pac 12 and SEC.
- Five America East institutions qualified as ‘Best Value Schools’ determined by a school’s academic quality compared to its net cost of attendance for a student who received the average level of need-based financial aid.
- Four America East schools ranked among the Top-95 institutions for veterans, based on participation in federal initiatives helping veterans and active-duty service members apply for, pay for and complete their degrees.
- UMBC came in as the ninth-most innovative school in the country, just ahead of University of Michigan, Harvard University, Duke University and Princeton University.
- UMBC was also selected eighth in undergraduate teaching, up five spots from a year ago and 10 spots from 2016, while UMass Lowell was #52 in that category.
America East Institutions in US News & World Report Top 100 National Universities (Out of 312 Ranked)
Rank School
| T80. Binghamton |
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| T80. Stony Brook |
| T96. Vermont |
America East Institutions in US News & World Report Top 100 Public Universities (Out of 132 Ranked)
Rank School
| T32. Binghamton |
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| T32. Stony Brook |
| T42. Vermont |
| T46 New Hampshire |
| T70 Albany |
| T80 UMass Lowell |
| T87 UMBC |
| T97 Maine |
America East Institutions in US News & World Report Best Colleges for Value (Out of 143 Ranked)
Rank School
| 62. Binghamton |
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74. Vermont
76. New Hampshire
82. Albany |
| 118. Stony Brook |
America East Institutions in US News & World Report Best Colleges for Veterans (Out of 105 Ranked)
Rank School
| T46. Stony Brook |
| T59. Vermont |
68. New Hampshire
95. Albany |
To calculate the rankings, U.S. News gathers data from each college on up to 15 indicators of academic excellence. The indicators are scored, normalized and assigned weights that reflect U.S. News' judgment about how much the measures matter. Next, the weighted values are summed and transformed so that each eligible school receives an overall score between 0 and 100, with the top school(s) in each category scoring 100. Finally, colleges and universities are ranked against their peers in descending order of their overall scores.
The America East Conference provides its member schools and their athletic programs a platform upon which student-athletes can achieve both collegiate and life success through the promotion and nurturing of athletic excellence, academic achievement and leadership, on and off the field.
America East’s commitment to academic achievement among its member institutions and student-athletes is unmatched. The conference recognizes over 2,500 student-athletes each year via six different academic awards programs. Additionally, the America East Academic Consortium, a voluntary academic partnership of the nine universities that comprise the America East Conference, aims to leverage the distinctive academic strengths of each member institution to encourage and support inter-institutional academic and administrative collaboration.
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