The USA is one of the countries that are well known for academic excellence. It has many universities that have a different ranking position but all have the capability to perform well. They only differ in the courses offered, year of foundation and structural development.
Ranking of US universities involves considering many factors which does not actually show much difference between universities. Considering the best-ranked universities we can say that ranking was done by considering how the university has performed as seen through the number of awards it has.
They also considered specialization of the courses offered by the university where the best-ranked university specializes in science and engineering. The number of politicians and advisers in the field of science and technology was also used in the rankings.
However, there are many types of rankings that have been used for many years. They are ranked in terms of business, career, innovations, and inventions among others. As described below the ranking of universities has been done by consideration of different factors.
The economist’s college
Here the ranking majorly focuses on the economic advantage of the student. It involves the determination of how much a student who studies in the USA earn as opposed to how much the student could have earned given they had studied outside the USA. Complex criterion and multiple statistical calculations have been used to obtain the values that relate variables.
Faculty ranking
This is where institutions are ranked base on certain factors in a faculty. Such factors include faculty awards, citations, and publications as well as research grants.
Money’s University rankings
This takes into consideration many factors which actually measures the quality of education. It also considers the affordability of the education as well as the success of the alumni. According to this ranking, Princeton University was ranked the best in 2017 where the total earning of the alumni was the taken into consideration.
Niche rankings
This is more similar to Forbes college rankings and it involves considering the diversity of academic in terms of a number of units. Affordability and how the students get satisfied by the university are other factors considered in this type of ranking.
Career education
In this case, a university is ranked according to the percentage of its students employed formally in their field of study. This motivates the institution to equip students with necessary both theory and practical skills to be able to compete well in their fields.
Based on innovation and invention
This basically involves the ranking according to the ability of the university to produce students who are able to invent and bring new things in the market especially the industrial and technology sector. Stanford has been ranked as the most innovative university for this case.
Business based ranking
It involves using professionals through some questionnaires and interviews for inquiries about the university. The questions basically involve the universities which teach their students in preparation for the future life. Those that prepare students on how to fight for their success in life are therefore ranked the best.
This factors and some other are used in the USA university rankings. The best ranked national universities are based in the cities of California and New York and this includes;
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Stanford University
- Harvard University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Cornell University
- University of Washington
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Michigan
- Purdue University
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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