3 Videos,
American University Rankings 2025
- B++ Shiksha Grade
- Private University
90 acre campus- Estd. 1893
Talk to Expert
- AU Ranking Highlights
- AU University Ranking
- AU US News & World Report Ranking 2024
- AU QS Ranking 2025
- AU THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
- AU ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2023
- AU Bloomberg Ranking 2023
- AU Course Ranking
AURanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, American University has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, American University stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated B++ by Shiksha Grading, American University is also rated A for courses, such as LL.M. and BBA. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the American University courses are in the range of A and C grades.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, American University ranks #711, which is improving in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #751 in 2024. American University also ranks #601 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, American University witnessed a stable trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #601 in 2023. Additionally, American University ranks #105 in US News 'National University' category in 2024.
Check out more details on American University ranking in the below content.
By Shiksha Study AbroadUniversity Ranking
AUUS News & World Report Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
Global Universities | 653 | 590 | 784 |
| National University | 79 | 72 | 105 |
| Best Graduate Law Schools | 81 | 73 | 89 |
| Graduate Business School | 76 | 102 | 85 |
| UG Business | 84 | 86 | 84 |
AUQS Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| World University | 701 | 751 | 711 |
| Accounting and Finance | – / – | 151 | – / – |
| Global MBA | 131 | 131 | – / – |
| Law and Legal Studies | 51 | 85 | – / – |
| Masters in Business Analytics | 45 | 50 | – / – |
| Politics | 51 | 51 | – / – |
AUTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University | 501 | 601 | 601 |
| Arts and Humanities | – / – | 501 | 601 |
| Law | 70 | 58 | 86 |
| PG Business and Economics | 501 | 401 | 401 |
| Psychology | 501 | 401 | 401 |
AUARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2023
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 51 | 76 | 76 |
| Political Sciences | 51 | 51 | 51 |
| Sociology | 151 | – / – | 101 |
AUBloomberg Ranking 2023
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Business School USA | 70 | 47 | 62 |
AUCourse Ranking
Shiksha has graded American University streams, such as Business & Management Studies, Law, and Humanities & Social Sciences with A, A, and B++ grades. The presence of multiple rankings online can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad. Hence, Shiksha Study Abroad has launched Shiksha Grading. With it, students will no longer be required to check multiple ranking organisations to know about the performance of a particular university. Just checking Shiksha rating will suffice.
However, in case students are wondering how well is American University ranked for its subjects as per other ranking bodies, the institute is popular for its UG Business, Masters in Business Analytics, and Politics courses all over the world. In the US News ranking 2024, American University stands at #84 for UG Business program. This ranking stood at #86 in 2023.
Read on to learn more about American University courses and subject rankings in the below article.
LL.M.
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS - Law and Legal Studies | - | 101 | 51 |
| ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Law | 51 | 76 | 76 |
| US News & World Report - Best Graduate Law Schools | - | 81 | 73 |
| THE (Times Higher Education) - Law | - | 70 | 58 |
M.A.
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS - Politics | - | 51 | 51 |
| ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Political Sciences | 51 | 51 | 51 |
| ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Sociology | 151 | - | 101 |
| THE (Times Higher Education) - Arts and Humanities | - | - | 501 |
AU
Student Forum
Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 2 weeks ago
A comparison of American University with the University at Buffalo and University of Washington is given as follows. A few of the parameters that will be considered by students for deciding the university are tuition fees, quality of faculty, tuition fees, scholarships, etc.
Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 weeks ago
The duration of American University MBA course is 21-months. MBA class size at this university is small which ensures that students form a lifelong personal and professional network with the peers and professors. The student-to-faculty ratio is 19:1. It is ranked among the Top 50 in the US as per a
R
Beginner-Level 5
Answered 2 weeks ago
American University campus size is 90 acres. The main campus of American University is located at 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington. The university has 150+ student organizations. A few of the categories of the university's organizations are academic / professional, performing arts, political
R
Beginner-Level 5
Answered 2 weeks ago
91% is the placement rate for American University graduates are working, or in graduate school, or both. The top employers of this university undergraduates are EY, Deloitte, Accenture, Amazon, Bank of America, ESPN, etc. The average salary of American University undergraduates is USD 65,909 (Around
R
Beginner-Level 5
Answered a month ago
American Uni is a competitive university to get into and thus, students must submit exceptional academic grades as well as excel in co-curricular activities. Fulfilling the required Grade Point Average is one of the major entry requirements at the university and international students must maintain
Contributor-Level 10
About the author
College of Law
East Campus
Katzen Arts Center
AU Popular & recent articles
AULocation
| University City | Washington D.C., Virginia, USA |
| Size of city | Medium |
| Population of City | 6,94,000 |
AUContact Information
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Washington D.C. ( Virginia)
Which university is best among American University, University of Washington and University at Buffalo?