(CBS DETROIT) – U.S. News & World Report released its list of best colleges and universities in the U.S. for 2025, and two Michigan universities made the top 100.
The list ranked nearly 1,500 four-year, bachelor’s degree-granting institutions in the U.S. using 17 ranking factors. The ranking criteria include factors like graduation rates, first-year retention rates, standardized tests, student-faculty ratio and more.
One of the main categories for the rankings is the national universities category, but 13 key factors were also used to rank the schools in terms of best liberal arts colleges, best regional universities and best regional colleges.
Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Yale topped the list, but here are the Michigan universities that ranked among the top 100.
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor ranked No. 21 on the list of best national universities. The university was founded in 1817. In-state tuition and fees are $18,848, and out-of-state tuition and fees are $63,081. Undergraduate enrollment is at 33,730 and its acceptance rate is 18%.