INFORMATION YOU CAN TRUST
At Research.com, our mission is to empower students across the United States with the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on higher education.
Research.com is a leading educational platform that helps students find the best schools, academic opportunities, and career paths. We provide a wide range of comprehensive, well-researched, data-driven guides and resources prepared by a team of experts that work together to answer your questions and help you make informed decisions. Our platform also features a popular ranking of US colleges and universities. It offers a detailed overview of each school and allows for a deep school discovery process based on a wide range of metrics.
INFORMATION YOU CAN TRUST
At Research.com, our mission is to empower students across the United States with the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on higher education.
BEST RESOURCE FOR STUDENTS
We strive to be the go-to resource for students seeking to make informed decisions about their educational journey and career path.
CONTENT CURATED BY EXPERTS
Through our meticulously curated guides, expert's advice, and resources, we aim to simplify the complex landscape of higher education, making it accessible and understandable for all.
DATA-DRIVEN SCHOOL RANKINGS
Our commitment also extends to providing data-driven rankings of the best traditional and online schools in various categories, ensuring that every student finds a path that best suits their aspirations and goals.
INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY
We believe in providing honest, unbiased information to guide students through their educational choices. Our rankings and advice are rooted in rigorous research and data analysis, ensuring reliability and objectivity.
INCLUSIVITY
Education should be available to everyone. Research.com is dedicated to serving a diverse audience, offering resources that cater to a wide range of backgrounds, interests, and educational goals.
INNOVATION
The world of education is ever-evolving, and so are we. We continuously update our content and methodologies to reflect the latest trends, technologies, and educational practices, ensuring our users have access to the most current information.
SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE
Beyond just providing information, we aim to support students throughout their educational journey. From choosing the right major to planning a career, Research.com is a partner every step of the way.
PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
By choosing Research.com, you're not just accessing a wealth of information you're joining a community committed to making your educational and career goals a reality. Here's how we can help you:
Comprehensive Information
From detailed guides on various majors to rankings of the best schools, Research.com offers a wealth of information all in one place, saving you time and effort in your search for the right educational or career path.
Data-Driven Insights
Make decisions based on facts. Our rankings and advice are backed by extensive research, data analysis, and expert insights, providing you with reliable information to base your choices on.
Personalized Advice
Understanding that each student's journey is unique, we offer tools and resources that cover a wide range of preferences, helping you to navigate your own path with confidence.
Career Planning
With an eye on the future, Research.com provides valuable career planning advice, helping you to not only choose the right degree but also to map out a successful career path post-graduation.
DATA-DRIVEN RESEARCH
Research.com offers a wide range of data-driven rankings of US colleges and universities that will help you identify the best school to fit your educational needs and preferences. Our rankings will provide you with a comprehensive overview of each school, along with crucial data on enrollment, tuition, acceptance rates and requirements, graduation rates, financial aid, faculty and facility information, and salary projections for graduates.
You can personalize your school discovery process with many customization options that will allow you to filter potential schools by affordability, popularity, value for money, or geographic location. Here are some of the most popular rankings on our platform:
In our rankings we rely on hard, numerical data, either publicly available or obtained from well-established organizations with years of experience in data gathering.You can read more about how our research process works here:
Our MethodologyResearch.com is a reliable source of information that is regularly shared and quoted by popular media outlets and leading universities worldwide. Our work has been featured by:
OUR ORIGINS
Research.com was created by Imed Bouchrika, PhD, whose expertise allows us to provide verified, credible, and current information. Research.com is also continuously steered by feedback from leading education experts and the whose insights have shaped the vision of our platform to ensure it answers the needs of the student community.
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist
Imed Bouchrika received his BSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom in 2004 and 2008 respectively. Since 2008, he has worked as a research fellow at the Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group of the University of Southampton.
He has been collaborating on a number of international research projects with different partners from the academic community and industrial sector. His work on the use of gait for forensic cases in criminal investigation attracted the interest of law enforcement agencies from different countries including the UK, Sweden, and Australia.
He is now a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Souk Ahras, Algeria. His research areas include eLearning, image processing, and biometrics. He has made numerous research contributions that have been accepted for publication in well-respected journals and conferences. He has also been actively involved in launching a number of start-up companies in the IT sector.
COMMITMENT
Research.com content is prepared base on the highest editorial standards, to ensure the best possible level of quality, accuracy, and consistency. Our commitment to excellent standards also extends to our user interactions, ensuring that every discourse, every exchange, is respectful, enlightened, and valuable.
OUR EDITORIAL POLICYWHO ARE WE?
The Research.com team is a diverse group of over 60 professionals, including data analysts, researchers, journalists, editors, education specialists, and IT developers. We're a remote, multicultural team spread across three continents, bound together by a passion for data-driven research and education.
We cooperate with 450+ prestigious colleges and universities and our diverse expertise allows us to tackle complex challenges, making research accessible and engaging worldwide. Our data analysts and researchers delve into data to uncover insights, while our education specialists work to make learning more accessible through innovative resources. IT developers ensure our digital platforms are user-friendly, supporting our mission to share knowledge effectively.
We are also proud of our success in creating unique rankings of colleges and universities that focus on key factors related to affordability of education. This topic is especially important to us in light of the current economic climate, as we believe that quality education should be available to everyone.
Research.com is a community committed to advancing education and research through collaboration, innovation, and a deep belief in the transformative power of data.
CONNECTING SCIENTISTS
Our mission is to make it easier for professors, research fellows, and those studying for a PhD or a master's degree to progress with their research and to ensure they are always up-to-date with the latest conferences around the world and publications related to their work.
We have felt the necessity to create an academic platform that cares about the quality of research to inspire young researchers to contribute to the advancement of science. Research.com is being steered by the feedback we receive continuously from leading scientists whose contributions have shaped the vision and future direction of our academic portal.
Our platform enables researchers and scholars to: