{"id":291741,"date":"2026-09-22T19:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291741\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T19:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:26:45","slug":"these-are-the-top-pa-universities-in-2027-u-s-news-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291741\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are The Top PA Universities In 2027 U.S. News Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 (tie). Pomona College, Claremont, California <\/p>\n<p>3 (tie). Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p> How Rankings Are Calculated <\/p>\n<p>U.S. News evaluates schools using measures that include graduation and retention rates, the performance of students who received federal Pell Grants, faculty resources, academic reputation, graduates\u2019 earnings and student debt.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. News said the rankings should be considered one tool among many when choosing a college. Cost, financial aid, available majors, campus culture, location and a student\u2019s likelihood of graduating can matter more than a school\u2019s numerical position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 (tie). Pomona College, Claremont, California 3 (tie). Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania How Rankings Are Calculated U.S. News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-291741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}