
Marquette is ranked in the top 20% among national universities at No. 88 in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. Marquette is tied with eight schools: American University; Baylor University; Howard University; Rochester Institute of Technology; Southern Methodist University; University of California, Santa Cruz; University of Delaware; and the University of South Florida.
Marquette is the fourth-highest-ranked school in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, trailing only Georgetown University, Boston College and Santa Clara University.
Marquette once again made the peer-nominated list for Best Undergraduate Teaching, ranked No. 17 – the fourth year the university has placed in the top 20. The university is also ranked No. 24 in service learning, a new category this year.
Marquette is ranked 48th among Most Innovative Schools, 59th in Best Value Schools and 55th in Best Colleges of Veterans.
The university is also noted among U.S. News’ college- and program-specific rankings, which are based solely on peer assessment scores, rather than publicly available data.
- The College of Nursing rose from No. 54 last year to 28 for its Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.
- In the Best Undergraduate Business Programs list, the College of Business Administration is ranked 109th.
- The following Marquette Business programs were also individually ranked:
- Accounting (30), Finance (20), Real Estate (12), Supply Chain Management/Logistics (20) and Analytics (38).
- Economics, which is housed in both the College of Business Administration and the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, is ranked 139th.
- The Opus College of Engineering is ranked 125th among Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs.
- Marquette is ranked 113th in psychology — up from 164th last year —and 212th on the Best Computer Science Schools list. Both programs are housed in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences.
U.S. News graduate program rankings are released each spring.


