U.S. News & World Report just released their 2026 ranking of the country’s best colleges, and one school in Rhode Island made the top 15.
The annual ranking evaluates over 1,700 colleges across the country by using 17 factors to measure academic quality and graduate success, including cost of attendance, graduation rate and student-faculty ratio.
In this year’s ranking, Brown University represented Rhode Island in the top 15, finishing in a tie for 13th place with Dartmouth College.
Here’s why.
According to U.S. News & World Report, Brown ranked at No. 13 for its prestigious 5% acceptance rate, its 6:1 student-faculty ratio and its 77% graduation rate, just to name a few factors. Brown is also ranked highly for its professors, placing second overall in the best undergraduate teaching category.
Brown also ranked eighth for service learning, fifth for first-year experience and third for best college for veterans, earning a No. 15 rank for best value school.
Here are the top 15 colleges in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 ranking:
The full ranking can be found here.