2023 Best Schools
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The Best Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 1,069 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best programs for students.
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Top Schools in the United States
Learn more about these excellent schools below:
Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best school in the United States for students working on their degree.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Stanford University is a great place for students.
The excellent programs at Rice University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools in the United States.
The excellent programs at Princeton University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools in the United States.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Dartmouth College. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Schools list.
Northwestern University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for students. It came in at #6 on the list.
Duke University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Schools ranking.
Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus ranked #8 on this year’s Best Schools list.
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With a ranking of #9, Keck Graduate Institute did quite well on this year’s best schools for students working.
University of Chicago did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for students. It came in at #10 on the list.
University of Notre Dame landed the #11 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best programs.
Carnegie Mellon University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for students. It came in at #12 on the list.
With a ranking of #13, Cornell University did quite well on this year’s best schools for students working.
Brown University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for students. It came in at #14 on the list.
University of Pennsylvania came in at #15 in this year’s edition of the Best Schools ranking.
With a ranking of #16, Teachers College at Columbia University did quite well on this year’s best schools for students working.
University of California - Berkeley did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for students. It came in at #17 on the list.
Georgetown University landed the #18 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best programs.
University of Virginia - Main Campus ranked #19 on this year’s Best Schools list.
With a ranking of #20, Harvard University did quite well on this year’s best schools for students working.
Vanderbilt University ranked #21 on this year’s Best Schools list.
Fielding Graduate University landed the #22 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best programs.
Yale University landed the #23 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best programs.
Lebanon Valley College ranked #24 on this year’s Best Schools list.
With a ranking of #25, Johns Hopkins University did quite well on this year’s best schools for students working.
Rest of the Top 50 Best Schools in the United States
Not only did these schools make the top 50 list, but they also landed in the top 15% of this year’s ranking:
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Rest of the Top 15% Best Schools in the United States
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Honorable Mentions
These schools also performed well in our best schools ranking:
Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.
References
- Read more about our ranking methodology.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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