AUSTIN (KXAN) — The University of Texas at Austin (UT) earned the No. 2 overall ranking among 100 of America’s top educational institutions, according to 2025 college rankings by the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.
To determine the rankings, the institutions were evaluated for how effectively students were prepared for success, institutional integrity, viewpoint diversity and campus culture.
Out of the 100 schools, UT ranked No. 1 in Resistance to Politicization, No. 1 in Heterodox Infrastructure and No. 3 in the Commitment to Meritocracy categories.
UT Austin executive vice president and provost William Inboden said the university was honored by this ranking.
“While national rankings will never define us as an institution, they do reflect the world-class quality of our faculty and students and the excellence and rigor of our academic mission,” Inboden said. “At UT, we provide an unmatched educational and social experience for our students as we prepare them for both professional success and citizenship.”
According to the rankings list, UT recently added a philosophy, politics, and economics minor and a major in Civics, which helped its score.
“This curriculum, a recent development at UT Austin, marks one way in which the school is moving toward a more rigorous education model,” the list said.
To complete the degree, undergraduate students must complete a core curriculum that includes courses in English composition, humanities, U.S. and Texas history, social sciences, math, science, technology, and visual and performing arts.
According to the rankings list, UT ranked in the middle when it came to its support for free speech.
“Students are more or less certain that the administration values free speech and would protect a speaker in the event of controversy,” the list said. “But [the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression] gives the school a ‘yellow’ speech code rating, meaning that its policies are vague enough that they could be abused to suppress free speech.”
The rankings also listed UT’s retention rate at 95%, and its six-year graduation rate at 84%, which it said were both “better than expected.”
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