Humboldt State is ranked as the 17th top public school in the west, and tied for 37th out of 127 public and private schools in the region, according to 2021 Best Colleges annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report.
U.S. News & World Report examined 17 measures of academic quality of 1,452 bachelor’s degree-granting institutions in the country. Academic quality is assessed under several categories: graduation and retention, graduation rate performance, graduate indebtedness, social mobility, faculty resources, expert opinion, financial resources, student excellence, and alumni giving.
HSU recently made high rankings on other lists. The University was named 45th of 614 master’s degree-granting colleges by Washington Monthly and one of the 127 best colleges in the West, according to the Princeton Review.
For more information, visit the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges website.
U.S. News & World Report also ranked HSU on lists for other categories:
- in Top Public Schools
- in Regional Universities West (tie)
- in Best Colleges for Veterans
- in Best Value Schools
- in Top Performers on Social Mobility (tie)
- in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs (tie)
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