Graphing Tool for US News Rankings (1984 - 2024)
- American University
- Baylor University
- Binghamton University
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Brandeis University
- Brown University
- California Institute of Technology
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Case Western Reserve University
- Clemson University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- Emory University
- George Washington University
- Georgetown University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Indiana University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lehigh University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- New York University
- North Carolina State University
- Northeastern University
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Pepperdine University
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Rice University
- Rutgers University
- Southern Methodist University
- Stanford University
- Stony Brook University
- Syracuse University
- Texas A&M University
- Tufts University
- Tulane University
- UCLA
- University of California Berkeley
- University of California Davis
- University of California Irvine
- University of California San Diego
- University of California Santa Barbara
- University of Chicago
- University of Connecticut
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois
- University of Maryland
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Miami
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Rochester
- University of Southern California
- University of Virginia
- Vanderbilt University
- Villanova University
- Wake Forest University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Yale University
- Yeshiva University
Each year, the magazine U.S. News ranks college in the United States, as well as internationally. This practice, and the fundamental ideas behind rankings, have come under much scrutiny recently, as people feel it's misleading, unfair, and "gameable". However, I thought this would be a challenging data project, so I decided to take it on.
Using Python, I collected all U.S. News rankings for "significant" colleges in the United States dating back to 1984, the year that the rankings began. This data is available in a data format on my github. I then used that data, along with chart.js, to make an interactive graphing tool that allows you to see how a college has changed in the rankings over time.
I've also created this data as a standalone dataset, which can be found here