New Best Colleges Unpublished Rankings and Excel Data Files Available from U.S. News

U.S. News is again providing, free of charge to any institutional researcher, Excel spreadsheets with ranking data that appear in the main rankings tables in the Best Colleges 2021 Edition guide book. These spreadsheets (for research purposes only, not publishing), will be emailed directly to each individual. They contain only data that appear in the published ranking tables (not all the data used to compute the rankings that are usnews.com). U.S. News will provide AIR members Excel spreadsheets for the 2021 and 2020 editions. U.S. News will also continue to provide AIR members unpublished rankings for their institution from the Best Colleges 2021 and 2020 Editions. The Best Colleges 2021 Edition will be launched publicly on usnews.com on Monday September 14, 2020; requests will be filled after that time. For Excel files and unpublished ranking requests or questions, contact rmorse@usnews.com.