The university in the United States with the largest endowment market value in 2024 was Harvard University, with an endowment fund value of about 51.98 billion U.S. dollars. U.S. higher education Colleges and universities in the United States rank highly among the world’s most prestigious institutions of higher education. Many universities are particularly well known for their strong research capabilities and their connections to many Nobel Prize winning laureates.The U.S. university system is largely decentralized. Except for service academies and staff colleges, the federal government does not directly regulate universities; public universities are administered solely by the individual states. Besides the state administered public universities, there are many private universities in the United States, most are non-profit institutions, similar to the public universities, but there are also a number of institutions that rely on profit (Walden University in Minnesota, for example).In general, tuition fees are required to be paid by students at American universities. Public universities generally charge lower tuition rates to in-state students, than to out-of-state students. Private universities are often much more expensive than public ones because they do not receive funding from state governments.American students are often required to take out student loans to supplement scholarships and grants provided by diverse sources to be able to pay for tuition. Student debt has become a major issue in the United States in recent years, with many Americans unsure if they can even afford to pay off their student loans in the future.

Context

This dataset contains the US News rankings of the best American universities of undergraduate programs. This is how US News ranks the colleges: "We calculated 10 distinct overall rankings where colleges and universities were grouped by their academic missions. For each ranking, the sum of weighted, normalized values across 17 indicators of academic quality determine each school's overall score and, by extension, its overall rank. The top performer(s) in each ranking displays an overall score of 100. Others' overall scores are on a 0-99 scale reflecting the distance from their ranking's top-performing school(s). Those placing outside the top 75% display their ranking's bottom quartile range (e.g., No. 90-120) instead of their individual ranks (e.g., No. 102)."

Content

This dataset contains the rankings of 392 American universities based on their undergraduate programs. It also contains the tuitions and enrollment numbers of each university. 2 colleges don't have tuition data, so it is labelled -1.

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge US News for providing these rankings.

Inspiration

As a high schooler applying to undergraduate programs in America, it would be useful to know which colleges are best, and to compare tuitions and enrollment numbers.

National Universities Rankings

Analyze 1,800 U.S. Universities and their Academic Performance

By Education [source]

About this dataset

Welcome to the U.S. News & World Report's 2017 National Universities Rankings, a comprehensive dataset of over 1,800 schools across the United States providing quality data on admissions criteria, cost of tuition and fees, enrollment numbers, and overall rankings! Here you'll find up-to-date information on institutes of higher learning from Princeton University at the top spot in Best National Universities to Williams College at No. 1 on the Best National Liberal Arts Colleges list.

This collection of data is all that's needed for potential students - parents, counselors and more - to evaluate their choices in selecting a college or university that perfectly meets their needs. For instance: what is the total tuition & fees cost? What are student enrollment numbers? How have students rated this school? Which universities have been recognized as top institutions in academics by U.S. News & World Report? What admissions criteria do these schools evaluate when considering an applicant's profile? The answers lie within this dataset!

Explore each category separately as well as with other considerations through visuals like our scatter plot to get an inside look into collegiate education from enrollment patterns charted against yearly expenses including room & board charges without forgetting several crucial factors such as six-year graduation rates and freshman retention rates measured among nations' universities included here -allowing for comparison and assessment beforehand for a well-rounded experience such that you can find your own path ahead!

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How to use the dataset

This dataset contains information on the quality, tuition, and enrollment data of 1,800 U.S.-based universities ranked by U.S. News & World Report from 2017. It includes rankings from the National University and Liberal Arts College lists in addition to relevant data points like tuition fees and undergraduate enrollments for each school.

Users can take advantage of this dataset to build models that predict ranking or predicting cost-benefit results for students by using cost-related (tuition) metrics along with quality metrics (rankings). Alternatively users can use it to analyze trends between investments in higher education versus outcomes (ranking), or explore the relationship between enrollments for schools of varying rank tiers, etc...

For more information on how rankings are calculated please refer to this methodology explainer on U.S news website

Here is an overview of all columns included in this dataset:

Columns:Name - institution name,Location - City and state where located,Rank - Ranking according to U.S News & World Report ,Description - Snippet of text overview from U.S News ,Tuition and fees – Combined tuition and fees for out–of–state students ,In–state – Tuition and fees for in–state students ,Undergraduate Enrollment – Number of enrolled undergraduate students .

Using this column detail as a guide we can answer questions like ‘which colleges give highest ROI ?’ or ‘Which college has highest number undergraduates?’ . For statistical analysis such as correlation we may use a visual representation such as a scatter plots or bar graphs accordingly making it easier analyses trends found within our dataset ans well as exploring any relationships between different factors such us tuitions vs ranks

Research Ideas

• Developing a searchable database to help high school students identify colleges that match their criteria in terms of tuition, graduation rate, location, and rank.
• Identifying correlations between enrollment numbers and university rank in order to better understand how the number of enrolled students effects the overall ranking of a university.
• Comparing universities with similar rankings in order to highlight differences between programs’ tuition and fees as well as retention rates

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

License: Dataset copyright by authors - You are free to: - Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. - Adapt - remix, ...

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Context

Most recent rankings of America's top 150 universities, scrapped from Niche.com

Content

Institution - Name of School AR - Acceptance Rate of School Location - City, State Price - Average Cost After Financial Aid SAT - 25th to 75th percentile score on SAT for accepted students

Acknowledgements

Niche.com

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 include 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date. The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

Explore the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 below. Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, the list ranks 2,092 institutions from 115 countries and territories.

2020 Rank School Name2019 RankIndexUS News ForbesBusiness Week Financial Times The Economist #1 Stanford GSB 1 100.0 1 (2) 2 (2) 1 (1) 3 (1) 7 (5) #2 Chicago (Booth) 2 99.2 3 (3) 1 (7) 4 (5) 6 (4) 1 (1) #3 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 4 98.9 1 (1) 5 (1) 6 (2) 2 (3) 4 (4) #4 Harvard Business School 3 98.3 6 (3) 4 (3) 3 (3) 1 (2) 2 (3) #5 Northwestern (Kellogg) 5 97.5 3 (6) 3 (4) 10 (8) 7 (9) 3 (2) #6 MIT (Sloan) 6 95.3 5 (3) 7 (8) 7 (4) 4 (5) 16 (14) #7 Columbia Business School 7 94.2 8 (6) 7 (6) 9 (7) 5 (6) 12 (9) #8 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 8 93.9 7 (6) 11 (9) 8 (6) 8 (7) 6 (10) #9 Dartmouth (Tuck) 9 93.6 12 (12) 6 (5) 2 (19) 10 (10) 10 (10) #10 Yale SOM 10 90.9 9 (9) 11 (13) 14 (11) 9 (8) 18 (12) #11 Virginia (Darden) 11 90.3 11 (12) 13 (11) 5 (9) 12 (12) 13 (8) #12 Cornell (Johnson) 13 89.7 15 (15) 9 (10) 11 (10) 14 (15) 11 (16) #13 Michigan (Ross) 12 89.6 12 (10) 10 (12) 17 (18) 16 (16) 8 (6) #14 Duke (Fuqua) 14 88.8 12 (10) 14 (14) 20 (15) 11 (11) 9 (13) #15 New York (Stern) 16 88.2 10 (12) 20 (21) 13 (13) 13 (13) 14 (15) #16 UCLA (Anderson) 15 87.9 16 (16) 16 (15) 12 (17) 15 (14) 5 (7) #17 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 17 83.7 19 (17) 17 (18) 15 (12) 18 (18) 24 (26) #18 Southern California (Marshall) 19 83.0 17 (17) 21 (33) 22 (13) 20 (23) 15 (21) #19 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 19 82.8 20 (19) 15 (16) 18 (23) 21 (16) 26 (23) #20 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 18 82.7 18 (19) 18 (17) 21 (22) 22 (19) 20 (19) #21 Washington (Foster) 21 81.0 20 (21) 23 (30) 16 (16) 27 (25) 17 (18) #22 Emory (Goizueta) 22 79.3 22 (21) 22 (23) 23 (24) 26 (20) 21 (22) #23 Indiana (Kelley) 23 79.2 23 (21) 19 (25) 25 (28) 23 (22) 27 (27) #24 Georgetown (McDonough) 24 76.6 25 (24) 31 (35) 19 (20) 17 (17) 34 (32) #25 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) 26 75.4 27 (29) 28 (30) 24 (27) 28 (31) 19 (24)

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