American University Rankings 2025

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.

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