Weeks after Niche.com crowned Rice University the best college in Texas, the Houston university has landed a pair of top rankings on the U.S. News & World Report's "2021 Best Colleges" list.
Just weeks after Houston's Rice University earned its bragging rights as best college in Texas according to Niche.com, now the university has landed a top ranking on the prestigious U.S. News & World Report's '2021 Best Colleges' list. This year, Rice University clinched the No. 16 spot among U.S. universities, and it's been crowned the best university in Texas, according to the 2021 Best Colleges List, released on September 14.
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This year, Rice University clinched the No. 16 spot among U.S. universities on U.S. News & World's list, as well as the distinction of best Texas college, as first reported by CultureMap.
"We’re pleased that Rice continues to be recognized not only as providing one of the best college educations in the United States, but also as one of the best values," President of Rice University, David Leebron, told Chron.com. "Particularly gratifying is the high recognition of our outstanding professors, and departments in every school as among the top ten in the country.”
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The report analyzed 1,452 bachelor's degree-granting institutions across 17 measures of academic quality. The ranking factors include graduation and retention, social mobility, graduation rate performance, undergraduate academic reputation, faculty resources for 2019-2020 academic year, student selectivity for the fall 2019 class, financial resources per student, average alumni giving rate, and graduate indebtedness.
For a bigger picture of the university's rankings, here's a breakdown of how Rice University got high marks:
- No. 6 in best undergraduate teaching
- No. 8 in best value schools
- No. 18 in most innovative schools
- No. 224 in top performers on social mobility
- No. 18 in best undergraduate engineering programs
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The other Texas schools which grace the 2021 Best Colleges list include the University of Texas at Austin, which ranked as No. 42. Texas A&M University and Southern Methodist University tied at No. 66. Baylor University ranked at No. 76 and Texas Christian took No. 80 spot on the list.
The top 5 universities in the nation were: Princeton University, No. 1; Harvard University, No. 2; Columbia University, No. 3 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University, which tied for the No. 4 ranking.
