Description: The Best 2016 Top 100 All University Academic Rankings. California Institute of Technology, Harvard University and Princeton University are the top 3 universities for this years academic rankings
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UniversityBenchmarks.com ranks the universities that attract and produce the best academic students.
There are many 'University Rankings' on the internet. Most rankings rely heavily on subjective metrics like 'reputation' and 'selectivity'. UniversityBenchmarks is purely an academic ranking model. The rankings are based on the reported academic and financial metrics of the colleges. There are no subjective factors like 'reputation' that are used. The calculations are performed using normal statistical models. All universities are considered equal and there is no weighting of the ranking categories.
The university 2014-2015 dataset is comprised of over 2400 US Universities & Colleges and comes from multiple sources using the most favorable reported metrics for a university.