Research Guides: Education Data and Statistics: College Rankings

College Rankings

U.S. News and World Report (U.S. News and World Report began ranking colleges in 1983 and released rankings every other year until 1987 when it converted to annual rankings)
- print holdings: current volume in Trustee Reading Room Reference (DR), Firestone . Previous years (from 2012 on) in ReCAP. Call number LB2331.63 .A46
The Fiske Guide to Colleges (and its predecessors) and Barron's Profiles of American Colleges are among the other popular publications that utilize rating systems. Search in the library catalog for print holdings.

College and University Rankings
Courtesy of the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library or by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "At this site, you will find links to many ranking services, along with cautionary notes and a discussion of the ongoing controversy over rankings."