Washington University — consistently ranked among America’s 20 best national universities — is ranked 12th for undergraduate programs among the nation’s best 248 national universities by U.S. News & World Report, the magazine announced this week. The University also ranked 18th in the Best Value category.
This year’s results, published in the Aug. 28 edition of U.S. News and its America’s Best Colleges guide, rank WUSTL fourth in financial resources; sixth in faculty resources; sixth in selectivity; and 10th in alumni giving.
WUSTL also ranked 11th in highest proportion of classes with fewer than 20 students, and 17th in graduation and retention (an increase of two spots).
The Olin School of Business undergraduate program is ranked as the 13th-best business school among national universities, tied with Emory, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The School of Engineering and Applied Science undergraduate program is ranked 39th, up two spots from last year, tied with Arizona, Case Western Reserve and Iowa State.
The U.S. News overall undergraduate rankings are derived from peer assessments by university chief executive officers, provosts and admissions deans, as well as from data gathered from each institution.
These data are broken down into categories and assigned a weight reflecting the magazine’s judgment about which measures of quality matter most.
A complete list of the rankings is posted on the publication’s Web site, usnews.com.
A complete list of the most rankings for all WUSTL schools, departments and programs is available online at news-info.wustl.edu/rankings.