Best Colleges In New Hampshire: U.S. News Rankings 2020

You probably already know Dartmouth College is the highest-ranked national college in New Hampshire, but what about the rest of the schools? A dozen Granite State colleges and universities made the U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 best colleges list, released Monday.

Two New Hampshires colleges were featured on the national list with the highest-ranking college — Dartmouth — coming in at twelve.

New Hampshire also scored some of the top schools in U.S. News & World's north regional rankings.

The 2020 rankings include the overall best national universities rankings, as well as rankings for the best liberal-arts colleges, the top public schools, the best value schools and more. See the rankings below:

National Universities

12. Dartmouth College, Hanover

125. UNH, Durham

National Liberal Arts Colleges

114. St. Anselm, Manchester

Unranked. Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, Merrimack

Regional Colleges North

8. Colby-Sawyer College, New London

10. Keene St.

92. Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester

119. Plymouth St.

129-170. Franklin Pierce University, Rindge; N.E. College, Henniker; Rivier University, Nashua

Unranked. Granite State College, Concord

A total of 1,400 colleges are included in the 2020 rankings.The publication says that 90 percent of those reading the best-colleges list are looking for schools outside the top 10. (You can read the full methodology here)

“For more than three decades, we’ve collected and analyzed data on thousands of colleges and
universities across the country and helped put schools on the map,” Kim Castro, editor and chief content officer of U.S. News, said in a news release. “We’ve found the best institutions to be ones committed to academically and financially supporting their students through graduation. They draw in high-quality professors and set students up for postgraduate success.”

Below are the top 5 national universities:

1. Princeton University (NJ)
2. Harvard University (MA)
3. Columbia University (NY) (tie)
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (tie)
3. Yale University (CT) (tie)

Below are the top 3 liberal arts colleges:

1. Williams College (MA)
2. Amherst College (MA)
3. Swarthmore College (PA) (tie)
3. Wellesley College (MA) (tie)

Below are the top 3 public universities:

1. University of California—Los Angeles
2. University of California—Berkeley
3. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor