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With the 2022 U.S. News and World Report National University Rankings out, I wanted to show how top 100 American universities (and their parent cities) have changed in stature since 2014. The numbers below are broken out by CSA and the change is 2014 > 2022.
The biggest trend is that flagship Southern universities have blossomed this past decade, with FSU, UFlorida, UGeorgia, and UTexas all showing incredible increases. Meanwhile, Northeast city elite universities have kept their golden pedestal, but secondary universities have generally fallen, as universities like Fordham, Stony Brook and Yeshiva have failed to keep up with their bigger Southern flagship competitors.
California universities have also done quite well, both due to a methodological change that benefits student aid-friendly universities, and the tech boom. Elite schools focused on tech/STEM, like MIT and Johns Hopkins have also been among the only few to show Tier I moves (the U.S. News methodology is meant to be sticky, so a university like MIT going from #7 > #2 is huge).
Overall, the U.S. university ecosystem continues to splinter, and only 4 CSAs now claim to have 5 or more universities: Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Washington.
CSA
University (2014 Rank > 2022 Rank) Change
ALBANY
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (#41 > #55) -14
ALLENTOWN
Lehigh University (#41 > #49) -8
ATLANTA
Emory University (#20 > #21) -1
Georgia Institute of Technology (#36 > #38) -2
University of Georgia (#60 > #48) +12
AUSTIN
University of Texas (#52 > #38) +14
BINGHAMTON
Binghamton University (#97 > #83) +14
BLACKSBURG
Virginia Tech (#69 > #75) -6
BLOOMINGTON
Indiana University (#75 > #68) +7
BOSTON
Boston College (#31 > #36) -5
Boston University (#41 > #42) -1
Brandeis University (#32 > #42) -10
Brown University (#14 > #14) -0-
Harvard University (#2 > #2) -0-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#7 > #2) +5
Northeastern University (#49 > #49) -0-
Tufts University (#28 > #28) -0-
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (#62 > #63) -1
BUFFALO
University at Buffalo (#109 > #93) +16
CEDAR RAPIDS
University of Iowa (#73 > #83) -10
CHAMPAIGN
University of Illinois (#41 > #47) -6
CHARLOTTESVILLE
University of Virginia (#23 > #25) -2
CHICAGO
Northwestern University (#12 > #9) +3
University of Chicago (#5 > #6) -1
CLEVELAND
Case Western Reserve University (#37 > #42) -5
COLLEGE STATION
Texas A&M University (#69 > #68) +1
COLUMBUS
Ohio State University (#52 > #49) +3
COLUMBUS (GA)
Auburn University (#91 > #99) -8
DALLAS-FORT WORTH
Southern Methodist University (#60 > #68) -8
Texas Christian University (#UR > #83) N/A
DENVER
Colorado School of Mines (#91 > #83) +8
University of Denver (#91 > #93) -2
DETROIT
University of Michigan (#28 > #23) +5
GAINESVILLE
University of Florida (#49 > #28) +21
GREENSBORO
Elon University (#UR > #83) N/A
Wake Forest University (#23 > #28) -5
GREENVILLE
Clemson University (#62 > #75) -13
HARTFORD
University of Connecticut (#57 > #63) -6
HOUSTON
Rice University (#18 > #17) +1
ITHACA
Cornell University (#16 > #17) -1
LAFAYETTE (IN)
Purdue University (#68 > #49) +19
LANSING
Michigan State University (#73 > #83) -10
LEBANON
Dartmouth College (#10 > #13) -3
LOS ANGELES
California Institute of Technology (#10 > #9) +1
Loyola Marymount University (#UR > #75) N/A
Pepperdine University (#57 > #49) +8
University of California, Irvine (#49 > #36) +13
University of California, Los Angeles (#23 > #20) +3
University of California, Riverside (#112 > #83) +29
University of Southern California (#23 > #27) -4 [UCLA/USC seem to be diverging]
MADISON
University of Wisconsin (#41 > #42) -1
MIAMI
University of Miami (#47 > #55) -8
MILWAUKEE
Marquette University (#75 > #83) -8
MINNEAPOLIS
University of Minnesota (#69 > #68) +1
NASHVILLE
Vanderbilt University (#17 > #14) +3
NEW ORLEANS
Tulane University (#52 > #42) +10
NEW YORK
Columbia University (#4 > #2) +2
Fordham University (#57 > #68) -11
New York University (#32 > #28) +4
Princeton University (#1 > #1) -0-
Rutgers University (#69 > #63) +6
Stevens Institute of Technology (#82 > #83) -1
Stony Brook University (#82 > #93) -11
Yale University (#3 > #5) -2
Yeshiva University (#47 > #68) -21
PHILADELPHIA
University of Delaware (#75 > #93) -18
University of Pennsylvania (#7 > #8) -1
Villanova University (#UR > #49) N/A
PITTSBURGH
Carnegie Mellon University (#23 > #25) -2
University of Pittsburgh (#62 > #59) +3
RALEIGH
Duke University (#7 > #9) -2
North Carolina State University (#UR > #79) N/A
University of North Carolina (#30 > #28) +2
ROCHESTER
University of Rochester (#32 > #34) -2
SACRAMENTO
University of California, Davis (#39 > #38) +1
SAINT LOUIS
Washington University in Saint Louis (#14 > #14) -0-
SALT LAKE CITY
Brigham Young University (#62 > #79) -17
SAN DIEGO
University of California, San Diego (#39 > #34) +5
University of San Diego (#91 > #93) -2
SAN FRANCISCO
Santa Clara University (#UR > #55) N/A
Stanford University (#5 > #6) -1
University of California, Berkeley (#20 > #22) -2
University of California, Merced (#UR > #93) N/A
SANTA BARBARA
University of California, Santa Barbara (#41 > #28) +13
Miami of Ohio is down from 75 all the way to 103 in eight years. What happened?
It's always been a very white school without a great reputation for progressiveness and inclusivity, so maybe diversity and helping poor students of color out of poverty are weighted more heavily in the rankings now?
Nice to see Binghamton University, University at Buffalo and Howard increasing and/or getting into the top 100. All have been underrated and are finally getting their due. Hope to see schools that came close like RIT in Rochester and SUNY-ESF in Syracuse(right next to Syracuse University) get in the top 100 soon(both were tied for #117).
Interesting. Only 3 states monopolize the top 10: Massachusetts (2), California (2), and Illinois (2). If you count metro areas, then NY (3); NY, NJ, and CT, for 9 out of the 10. Chicago is the only city proper to have 2 in the top ten by itself.
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