Johns Hopkins University is No. 9 among national universities according to the latest rankings of the nation’s best colleges for undergraduates from U.S. News & World Report, released today. The publication also recognized Hopkins as a national leader in reducing student debt and fostering innovation and undergraduate research.
Hopkins is tied with Brown University and Northwestern University in the overall rankings, which have counted JHU among the top 10 since 2015—including No. 7 a year ago—and in the top 20 since the rankings launched in the 1980s. The publication modified its formula for its 2024 rankings cycle, dropping some longstanding factors, changing the weights of several others, and introducing a few new metrics—methodological shifts that can result in significant changes to schools’ rankings, according to U.S. News.
This year, the rankings were calculated using as many as 19 key measures of academic quality to evaluate nearly 1,500 U.S. four-year bachelor’s degree-granting institutions. These statistics reflect educational excellence and graduate outcomes as well as considerations that vary person-to-person, like campus culture, strength in specific majors, and financial aid offered. First-generation student graduation rates were also added to the calculations for the 39th edition of the rankings.
