UT ranked No. 1 nationally for student life in the new report, released Aug. 31. The university was named the No. 2 college in Texas,\u00a0No. 30 nationally and No. 5 among public universities.<\/p>\n
Rice University was the only Texas school to place higher overall, ranking No. 1 in the state and No. 10 nationally.<\/p>\n
Niche gave UT an A+ overall grade and ranked the university No. 1 out of 1,487 colleges for student life. The ranking considers factors including student surveys about their overall college experience, athletics, campus food, the local area and student diversity.<\/p>\n
UT also landed near the top of several other national lists. It ranked No. 1 for communications, No. 4 for college location, No. 6 among large colleges, and No. 10 for engineering.<\/p>\n
The university also ranked No. 12 among the country\u2019s top party schools.<\/p>\n
Niche uses data from\u00a0the U.S. Department of Education and other sources, along with reviews from students and alumni, to compile its rankings. Academics account for 35% of a school\u2019s overall score, while value accounts for 27.5%. Other factors include professors, campus quality, diversity, student life, location and safety.<\/p>\n
For its 2027 rankings, Niche also added an \u201cInstitutional Success Score,\u201d which compares colleges with schools that have similar missions.<\/p>\n
Here are Niche\u2019s 10 best colleges in Texas for 2027.<\/p>\n
Take a look at Niche\u2019s rankings for the top 10 colleges in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UT ranked No. 1 nationally for student life in the new report, released Aug. 31. The university was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-424027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}