MIT Ranked No. 2 University by US News for 2025

US News and World Report recently released its 2025 Best Colleges rankings for undergraduate education, placing MIT second overall among colleges and universities in the United States.

The Institute ranked at or near the top in several categories, including first for undergraduate engineering, a position it has held for many years, and first for economics. The Institute ranked second for business and computer science programs. MIT also placed first in six out of nine engineering disciplines.

MIT’s top-ranking disciplines in the 2025 US News undergraduate categories are listed below.

Ranked #1 

Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering 

Biocomputing/Bioinformatics/Biotechnology

Business Analytics 

Chemical Engineering 

Computer Engineering 

Computer Science Theory

Computer Systems

Electrical/Electronic/Communications Engineering 

Materials Engineering 

Mechanical Engineering 

Production/Operation Management

Programming Languages

Quantitative Analysis

Ranked #2 

Artificial Intelligence

Entrepreneurship (tie)

Mobile/Web Applications (tie)

Photo (top): MIT Media Lab/Jake Belcher.