For more than 30 years, U.S. News & World Report has provided rankings for the nation’s best institutions of higher education. Spelman and Morehouse colleges have consistently ranked on the listings. For the past 10 years since the historically black colleges and universities listings have been added, the two institutions have placed in the top-spots of the listings. This year, Spelman is ranked No. 1 and Morehouse is ranked No. 4 on the HBCU list. Both schools are also ranked on the Best National Liberal Arts Colleges list – Spelman, No. 72; Morehouse, No. 159.
According to the sites ranking criteria and weights, colleges are ranked based on measures that fall into seven broad areas: undergraduate academic reputation (including peer assessment and, for the National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges categories only, high school counselors’ ratings); graduation and retention rates; faculty resources (class size, for example); student selectivity (for example, average admissions test scores of incoming students); financial resources; alumni giving; and graduation rate performance.
See the complete listings for best Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges.
