Notre Dame tops best colleges lists for Indiana
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The University of Notre Dame is still Indiana's best university.
Driving the news: U.S. News & World Report released its 2023-24 Best Colleges rankings this morning.
Why it matters: U.S. News is one of the most influential college rankings and has shaped the hierarchy of higher education since 1983.
Yes, but: The list (and others like it) has become polarizing.
- Last year, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said college rankings are "a joke."
The big picture: Notre Dame is consistently the top-ranked school in the state and the only to regularly place among the top 20 in the nation.
- It ranked 20th among national universities this year, down two spots from last year.
- It also ranked No. 19 on the list of the nation's best values in higher education.
Meanwhile, Purdue University moved up eight spots to No. 43.
- Indiana University's Bloomington campus dropped one spot to No. 73.
Details: The annual rankings also include a plethora of specific categories.
- U.S. News releases regional lists and ranks everything from the best public schools to the most innovative. It also rates individual programs, down to the best undergraduate engineering program at a school that doesn't offer a doctorate.
- Rose-Hulman has taken the top spot on that last list for the past 25 years.
Zoom in: Butler University was once again named the best Midwest university.
- Taylor University ranked No. 3 among best Midwest colleges.
- Purdue also made the list of best public schools in the nation, ranking 17th, and was named seventh most innovative in the country, same as last year.