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Why Academic Influence?
Innovative Ranking Technology
Our college rankings provide meaningful insights for your education. AcademicInfluence.com ranks colleges and academics using innovative machine learning to identify academic impact. We rank schools based on the faculty and alumni who are influential over 24 academic disciplines.
Influential People Matter
People are the foundation of our college rankings. We help you find highly cited, inspiring experts in over 24 disciplines, and the schools they are affiliated with. The colleges and universities that have histories of hiring and graduating influential people rise to the top.
Expert Guidance
We provide tools and resources to help you find your college match based on our expertise in higher education. If you need personal expert guidance, we can connect you to college admissions counselors trained to help you achieve your academic goals.
I find Academic Influence’s methodology to be innovative and refreshing as it uses a big data, machine-learning approach to rank universities based upon the influence/impact of its faculty and graduates. This moves away from a major flaw of existing rankings: reliance on self-reported, outdated or reputational data and toward impartial, openly available information.
School Rankings
Academic Institutions Rankings
Academic Influence employs advanced machine learning to identify the schools with the highest levels of academic excellence and most influential faculty. Explore our rankings of the best Christian schools, best online schools, best traditional US schools and even the best universities in the world to find your ideal learning environment.
Choosing Your Major
Choosing your major is one of the most stressful parts of going to college. Not everyone knows what they want to be or what job they want to do for the rest of their lives. The good news is that Academic Influence has put together some resources to help you on your journey. To get started, you can check out our full list of common college majors.
Tools for Prospective Students
Use our tools to discover and compare universities tailored to your preferences, delve into academic rankings, and explore degree and career insights—all in one place.
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College Compare
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College Strategist
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People Rankings
Dive into a world of knowledge and find inspiring figures from 24 academic fields and more than 300 sub-disciplines. Our approach draws on rich sources like Wikipedia and Semantic Scholar, perfect for spicing up research papers and building your bibliography. Whether you’re curious about legendary philosophers or leading mathematicians, we’ve got the insights to light up your research journey.
Influential People of the Day
Checkout our daily dose of influential people in the slideshow below, use the people search tool to find other people with accomplishments in their respective disciplines, or read about our ranking methodology to understand how we rank people and schools.
Meet Our Team
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James Barham
Education Writer
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Academic Integrity Coordinator
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Content Manager
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Content and Media Editor
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Chief Software Engineer
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James Linder
Media Director
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Videographer and Interviewer
