In the WSJ’s 2025 “Best Colleges” rankings, UH ranked 13th in Texas and 254th overall. Compared to the 2024 rankings, UH dropped 46 spots.
The rankings are primarily based on student outcomes and also consider the learning environment and diversity.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-a-m-rice-rank-wall-street-journal-s-top-19745418.php
That’s a joke… 13th in TX… GOOD ONE WSJ!!! 
Complete and utter BS. These periodicals do this to drive traffic. Just trash.
Stick with Forbes, which now has UH among the Top 50 publics!
I hate these ratings as much as anyone else, but it isn’t as if Forbes is any better than WSJ (it might be worse). Forbes is just displaying the results we want. Rather than trashing the source, we would be better served by knowing what is causing the poor ranking. Then, we can advocate for UH to improve those outcomes if they are logical.
Compared to UT, which ranked in the top 50, UH outperforms on the diversity score, and we are comparable in the learning environment scores (average of 6.2 points less on a 100 point scale). However, UH is completely crushed in the student outcomes score, and the graduation rate score is 61 points below UT.
The WSJ rankings have a 70% weight on student outcomes. The Forbes has a 50% weight on comparable variables, and they tend to put more weight on influence and perceived prestige such as inclusion in their own Forbes lists.
UH has a 39% 4-year graduation rate for the Forbes rankings, and it’s beating out Baylor at 68% and UTD at 53%, which both rank higher than UH in US News.
I’m celebrating the Forbes ranking too, but we risk stagnating our hard earned progress if we refuse to look deeper.
UTD is where people that flunked out of the BSEE program at Cullen COE used to transfer when I was studying at UH.
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