How to find out where colleges rank for majors?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I see a lot of people quoting that this college & that college are ranked one, two, three etc for specific majors. Where is everyone getting those rankings from? Specific Websites?</p>

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<p>US News</p>

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<p>Also NRC Rankings although these tend to heavily correspond with the USNWR grad school rankings. Undergrad programs typically aren’t ranked (save for the BBA and engineering), but a common assumption is that if a school has a well regarded grad program, the undergrad major will also be good. Sometimes this is true, sometimes it’s not.</p>

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<p>It also discounts colleges that don’t have graduate programs (like lots of LACs). There is a book called Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges that gives info on strong majors by school. Fiske Guide to Colleges also has some information on strength of majors.</p>

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<p>Major-specific accreditation can assure a baseline level of quality. For example:</p>

<p>ABET for engineering
ACS for chemistry
AACSB for business and accounting
NAAB for architecture</p>

<p>However, measures of quality otherwise may not be that easy to find. Note that various rankings may not account for the preferences and characteristics of a specific student (e.g. specific subareas of interest, likelihood of taking graduate-level courses as an undergraduate). Rankings based on graduate majors would not give any information for undergraduate-only schools (e.g. LACs).</p>

<p>PhD programs and employers looking for students with specific undergraduate majors may or may not have specific undergraduate school preferences based on perceived strength of major, or strength of students in the major (varies based on specific PhD program or employer). But if they do, they are typically not publicly available.</p>

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<p>[The</a> Gourman Report - college-rankings - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_rankings/gourman_report.htm]The”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_rankings/gourman_report.htm)</p>

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<p>Almost all of the Gourman rankings by subject are available on CC by using the search engine.</p>