Central Michigan University ranks for excellence in the top 10% of all four-year colleges and universities in the United States in the U.S. News & World Report 2025 Best Colleges rankings.

CMU appears in seven categories, including:

• Overall rank for national universities
• Overall rank for top public schools
• Undergraduate engineering with no doctoral program
• Undergraduate psychology program
• Undergraduate business program
• Top performers on social mobility among national universities
• Undergraduate computer science

CMU ranks 145th among top public universities and 259th overall. The undergraduate engineering with no doctoral program garnered CMU’s highest ranking for 2025, with the program tied for third-best in the state and 78th-best in the nation.

The rankings come on the heels of the CMU College of Medicine earning recognition for its commitment to serving rural, underserved areas from U.S. News and World Report earlier this year.