TCU ranks in top 100 in U.S. News & World Report's 2011 Edition of Best Colleges

Fort Worth, TX

8/17/2010

TCU was ranked in the top 100 in U.S. News & World Report 2011 Edition of Best Colleges and in the top 20 in U.S. News & World Report’s Up & Coming National Universities. The exclusive rankings, available online today at www.usnews.com/college, will also be published in the September issue of U.S. News & World Report, on newsstands starting August 31.

The University is up in overall rankings from 110 in 2009, to 99 in 2010. This is the TCU’s first appearance in the Up & Coming National Universities list.

"We have been working hard on many fronts to demonstrate TCU’s excellence…superior total-university experience, new state-of-the-art facilities to support first rate academic programs, and major accomplishments in athletics too," said Chancellor Victor J. Boschini. "TCU has also taken on new initiatives over the last year to be more involved with the leadership in higher education, and to help shape the future our entire enterprise."

The 2011 Best Colleges feature the established rankings of the Best National Universities and Best National Liberal Arts Colleges, while also including rankings of A+ Schools for B Students, Great Schools at Great Prices, and Up-and-Coming Schools, among others.

U.S. News has made some changes to the 2011 Best Colleges' ranking methodology and presentation. This year, schools are designated National Universities, National Liberal Arts Colleges, Regional Universities, and Regional Colleges. It is displaying the numerical rank of the top 75 percent of schools in each category, up from 50 percent. Graduation rate performance is more heavily weighted, and now accounts for 7.5 percent of the final score (compared to 5 percent previously) for the National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges categories only. For the first time, the opinions of high school guidance counselors are factored. For more details on these changes, go to www.usnews.com/collegemeth.

The 2011 Best Colleges package provides the most thorough examination of how more than 1,400 accredited four-year schools compare on a set of up to 16 widely accepted indicators of excellence. Among the many factors weighed in determining the rankings, the key measures of quality are: peer assessment, graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, alumni giving, and for National Universities and National Liberal Art Colleges "graduation rate performance" and high school counselor ratings of colleges.

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