Where Florida ranks academically among SEC schools for 2024 according to U.S. News

[Jeff from Jax]

Best National University Rankings
U S News criteria​

Schools in the National Universities category, offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master's and doctoral programs. These colleges also are committed to producing groundbreaking research.

SEC Ranking..........................National Ranking per U S News
1. Vandy..................................18
2. UF.......................................28
3. Univ Texas @ Austin......32 - surprised me
4, TAMU................................47 - Big surprise

SEC Rankings

National Rankings

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Other Schools I found interesting - combined high academics & legitimate sports programs

Stanford University - tied for #3 with Harvard​

Duke University - tied for #7 with Cal Tech​

Northwestern University - #9​

University of California, Los Angeles - #15
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[NorthJerseyGator]

Are you surprised at Texas schools being higher or lower than what you thought? It's the second largest state by area and population so just on numbers they're going to be ranked somewhat high.

 

[Jeff from Jax]

NJG

I listed the criteria that U S news is using to evaluate schools -

"... The range of undergraduate majors, plus master's and doctoral programs and the research programs and dollars are what U S news is looking at."

State area & population have nothing to do with the academic ranking compiled by U S News.

The money, represented by these factors
(area & population which equates to Money !)
can obviously have a significant impact on academic ratings.

Brown University #9​

located in Providence, RI would seem to typify the criteria U S News used.

:...The state of Rhode Island is the Smallest in the United States as far as surface area is concerned, but it has a healthy population by comparison (not really).

The last official US Census in 2010 showed that there were 1,052,567 people living in the state, and that made Rhode Island larger than seven other states across the country."

NOTE:
The Jacksonville MSA (metropolitan statistical area -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area)
has more people than the entire state of Rhode Island.

With a population of 1,733,937, the Jacksonville metropolitan area is only Florida's Fourth-Largest metropolitan region - Miami, Tampa, Orlando
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida

 

[Nicktheslick]

NJG

I listed the criteria that U S news is using to evaluate schools -

"... The range of undergraduate majors, plus master's and doctoral programs and the research programs and dollars are what U S news is looking at."

State area & population have nothing to do with the academic ranking compiled by U S News.

The money, represented by these factors
(area & population which equates to Money !)
can obviously have a significant impact on academic ratings.

Brown University #9​

located in Providence, RI would seem to typify the criteria U S News used.

:...The state of Rhode Island is the Smallest in the United States as far as surface area is concerned, but it has a healthy population by comparison (not really).

The last official US Census in 2010 showed that there were 1,052,567 people living in the state, and that made Rhode Island larger than seven other states across the country."

NOTE:
The Jacksonville MSA (metropolitan statistical area -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area)
has more people than the entire state of Rhode Island.

With a population of 1,733,937, the Jacksonville metropolitan area ranks is only Florida's Fourth-Largest metropolitan region - Miami, Tampa, Orlando
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida

Nice to have you back Jeff.