The Big 12 has had its fair share of athletic success in a number of sports. Its member schools also have strong academic reputations.
According to U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges rankings, four of the expanded Big 12’s universities rank within the top 100 in the US News report. The Oklahoma Sooners were just outside the top five in the conference.
U.S. News takes into account faculty resources, graduation rates and student outcomes to come to its rankings.
In the new-look Big 12, enrollment ranges from TCU, just over 10,000, to UCF, just over 60,000 students.
Using U.S. News’ rankings as a guide, here’s how the Big 12 schools in the new-look Big 12 stack up academically, according to U.S. News in the current calendar year.