Marquette University ranks 84th among the top national universities in the 2010 edition of America's Best Colleges, released by U.S. News & World Report. Marquette was listed among 262 U.S. universities that offer undergraduate majors, as well as master's and doctoral degrees, the premier category of institutions ranked by the publication.

For 2010, the Princeton Review named the College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management an outstanding business school in its latest book, The Best 301 Business Schools. In other rankings, Marquette is one of 44 schools named in the 2010 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges as a "Best Buy School." Schools are chosen based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance.

Marquette's graduate programs also have received top scores from U.S. News & World Report*:

1. The College of Nursing’s graduate programs scored 54th — placing the college in the top 20 percent of programs around the country — and nursing-midwifery was 18th (2007).
2. The Law School was ranked in the "Top 100"; the Law School's dispute resolution program was ranked sixth; and the legal writing program was 26th (2008).
3. The part-time master’s in business administration was ranked 12th (2009).
4. The executive MBA program was ranked 20th (2009).
5. The physician assistant program was ranked 40th (2007).
6. The biomedical engineering program was ranked 33rd (2008).
7. The College of Education was ranked 91st (2009).
8. The physical therapy program was ranked 19th (2008).
9. Biological sciences was ranked 136th (2007)
10. Clinical psychology was ranked 99th (2008)
11. Speech-language pathology was ranked 72nd (2008)