Rankings

AU consistently ranks among the nation’s great universities. A sample of recent rankings:

Overall Rankings

Princeton Review Best Colleges (2012)
#5 Most Politically Active Students
#10 Great College Town
#18 Best Career Services

Princeton Review Great Rating Honor Roll (2012)

U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges (2012)
#79 Best National University

National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Report
Our students say active learning is the norm at AU. Their responses placed AU above its peer institutions for the “Level of Academic Challenge,” “Student-Faculty Interaction,” and “Enriching Educational Experiences.”

School and Program Rankings

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

• CAS has earned national rankings in fields such as education, creative writing, economics, history, and music theatre and theatre.

KOGOD SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

• U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges
  #21 Best Colleges Specialty Rankings (2012)
  #69 Best Undergraduate Business Programs (2012)
  #87 Part-time MBA (2013)
  
• Forbes
  #68 Best Business Schools for MBA Programs (2011)
  
• Additional rankings from top publications
  

SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION

• Princeton Review Best Colleges (2009) rated AU a great school for journalism majors.
• SOC’s film and media arts program is a member of CILECT, the international association of film and television schools. Only 13 schools in the United States are CILECT members.
• Hollywood Reporter ranks AU as one of the country’s top film schools.

SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

• Foreign Policy Magazine (2012)
  #8 Graduate Programs (MA programs)
  #10 Undergraduate Programs
  

• U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Graduate Schools (2013)
  #8 Top Public Management/Public Administration Program
  #12 Top Schools: Public Affairs
  #24 Top Public Finance and Budgeting Program
  #28 Top Public Policy Program
  

WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW

• WCL offers nationally recognized clinical, international law, intellectual property, and trial advocacy programs in one of the nation’s most diverse law schools.

Other Indicators of Excellence

Study Abroad/Community Service

• Peace Corps rankings for medium-sized colleges with the most volunteers (2012)
  #3
  

• Institute of International Education (Open Doors Report, 2011)
  #10 among the top 40 doctoral institutions for the most undergraduates studying abroad
  #12 among the top 20 doctoral institutions for long-term study abroad

Community Service

• For the sixth year, the Corporation for National and Community Service has named AU to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
• AU’s Alternative Breaks program has been selected as the 2008 Excellence Award Gold Medal Winner by NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education for its service learning and community service programs.

The Student Experience

• CollegeProwler.com (student ratings) gives AU an A on campus dining, local atmosphere, safety and security, and transportation, and an A- on campus housing, nightlife, and off-campus dining.
  
• The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students (2006) ranks AU in the Top 20 Best of the Best.
• U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges (2009) ranks AU in its Best Colleges category for percent of undergraduates receiving Pell grants (11 percent), diversity, and average freshman retention rates (88 percent).

Teach for America (2010-2011)

• #19 for sending the most graduates into the program
  

March 2012