1, the best national universities: these universities are comprehensive research universities, offering bachelor's, master's and doctoral courses with complete professional settings; What we usually call ranking refers to this category. However, it should be noted that the indicators on which this ranking is based are all undergraduate indicators, such as high school ranking, SAT/ACT scores, freshman retention rate, graduation rate and so on. , is the evaluation of undergraduate education achievements. If you apply for a postgraduate degree, you should mainly look at the professional ranking.
2. The best colleges of arts and sciences: These universities mainly focus on undergraduate education, and at least 50% of the courses are liberal arts courses, such as language and literature, biology, life sciences, philosophy, cultural studies, psychology, etc. This kind of university pays attention to the cultivation of academic talents, which is more suitable for applicants who have good grades in high school, are interested in basic research in the future and have more scholarships.
3. Best University-Master: Ranked according to four regions: North, South, West and Midwest. These universities offer a wide range of bachelor's and master's courses, but few or no doctoral courses.
4. Best comprehensive college-Bachelor: Ranked according to four regions: North, South, West and Midwest. This kind of university is dominated by undergraduate education, but the liberal arts courses are less than 50%, and more are vocational courses such as business, nursing and education.
5. Specialized schools: Specialized schools only provide education in a certain field. US News lists the relevant schools in four categories: fine arts and performing arts-majors, business-majors, engineering-majors and service colleges, without ranking in order.
6. In addition to the above four categories of rankings, US News also made professional rankings for business and engineering majors.
In each category, US News ranks the top 50% universities in order, while the last 50% universities are divided into 3 or 4 grades, with no specific ranking.
Master's rankings are classified according to disciplines and majors, and are divided into social sciences &; Humanities, science, business, law, medicine, engineering, education, library and information science, public affairs and fine arts are ten disciplines, and they are ranked according to specific majors in addition to disciplines.