Rochester Institute of Technology is now listed as a “high research activity institution” or “R2” under the updated Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning. The R2 designation, the ...

The University’s elevation in the Carnegie Research Classifications highlights the impact of faculty and student research across disciplines. In the 2025 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of ...

The University of Rhode Island has been designated an R1 research university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. URI has seen significant growth in research ...

North Carolina A&T State University is one of the top three public research universities in the state. But it is still striving to attain one of the most prestigious classifications in the research ...

If most people know anything at all about the Carnegie Classifications—and many don’t—it starts and stops with one phrase: R-1. “Research 1,” the term the classification system attached to ...

Boston College has received another affirmation of its growing strength among the nation’s best research universities with the announcement that it has been elevated to an 'R1' institution—a ...

A total of 54 colleges and universities in California — including 21 California State University campuses and all 10 University of California campuses — received a research activity designation ...

The next Carnegie classifications of colleges, due in the spring of 2025, will label colleges by whether they’re low or high access, and whether students earn low or high incomes after they leave.