{"id":15641,"date":"2026-09-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/?p=15641"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:26:48","slug":"harvey-mudd-ranks-no-8-in-u-s-news-best-colleges-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2026\/09\/22\/harvey-mudd-ranks-no-8-in-u-s-news-best-colleges-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd Ranks No. 8 in U.S. News &amp; World Report&#8217;s Best Colleges 2027\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 8 among national liberal arts colleges in <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/colleges\">Best Colleges 2027<\/a>, moving up two places from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new category in this year\u2019s rankings, Top Private Colleges, the College ranked No. 7 among national liberal arts colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harvey Mudd ranked No. 7 for Most Innovative Schools (tied); No. 16 for Undergraduate Research\/Creative Projects (tied); No. 20 for Senior Capstone (tied); and No. 21 for Undergraduate Teaching (tied).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The College\u2019s undergraduate engineering program tied for No. 2 among non-doctorate-granting institutions, maintaining its position from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harvey Mudd\u2019s engineering program was also recognized in four specialties, ranking No. 3 in electrical and electronic engineering, No. 4 in mechanical engineering, No. 6 in computer engineering and No. 7 in civil engineering. Harvey Mudd offers a general engineering degree that emphasizes experiential, hands-on learning and team-based projects with real-world applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the seventh year of <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s<\/em> undergraduate computer science rankings, which include both doctoral and non-doctoral institutions, Harvey Mudd ranked No. 28 (tied). Harvey Mudd is the highest-ranked undergraduate-only institution on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em> Best Colleges rankings are based on a range of factors, including graduation and retention rates, graduate outcomes, peer assessment, financial resources, faculty resources, standardized test scores and research citations. For more information, see <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-colleges\/articles\/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings\">rankings methodology summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 8 among national liberal arts colleges in U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s Best Colleges 2027, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":12444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[967],"class_list":["post-15641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15645,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions\/15645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}