13 September 2016

U.S. News & World Report Posts 2017 College Rankings

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usnwr bestcollegesU.S. News & World Report released their 2017 college rankings earlier today.  Over 1,800 schools were covered nationwide and evaluated on multiple measures of academic excellence and outcomes to produce the final rankings.

Princeton retains sole posession of the top spot for National Universities, and Williams College tops the list of Liberal Arts Colleges.  

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U.S. News and World Report Ranking Changes (2017 vs 2016)

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  • InstitutionRank (2017)Rank (2016)Change
    Princeton 1 1  
    Harvard 2 2  
    University of Chicago 3 4 1 
    Yale 3 3  
    Columbia 5 4 1
    Stanford 5 4 1
    MIT 7 7  
    Duke 8 8  
    University of Pennsylvania 8 9 1
    Johns Hopkins 10 10  
    Dartmouth 11 12 1
    Caltech 12 10 2
    Northwestern 12 12  
    Brown 14 14  
    Cornell 15 15  
    Notre Dame 15 18 3
    Rice 15 18 3
    Vanderbilt 15 15  
    Washington University in St. Louis 19 15 4
    Emory 20 21 1
    Georgetown 20 21 1
    UC Berkeley 20 20  
    USC 23 23  
    Carnegie Mellon 24 23 1
    UCLA 24 23 1
    University of Virginia 24 26 2
    Tufts 27 27  
    University of Michigan 27 29 2
    Wake Forest 27 27  
    UNC Chapel Hill 30 30  
    Boston College 31 30 1
    University of Rochester 32 33 1
    William & Mary 32 34 2
    Brandeis 34 34  
    Georgia Tech 34 36 2
    NYU 36 32 4
    Case Western 37 37  
    UC Santa Barbara 37 37  
    Boston University 39 41 2
    Northeastern University 39 47 8
    RPI 39 41 2
    Tulane 39 41 2
    UC Irvine 39 39  
    Lehigh 44 47 3
    UC Davis 44 41 3
    UC San Diego 44 39 5
    University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign 44 41 3
    University of Miami 44 51 7
    University of Wisconsin - Madison 44 41 3
    Penn State 50 47 3
    Pepperdine 50 52 2
    University of Florida 50 47 3
    Villanova 50 Regionally Ranked  
  • InstitutionRank (2017)Rank (2016)Change
    Williams 1 1  
    Amherst 2 2  
    Wellesley 3 4 1
    Middlebury 4 4  
    Swarthmore 4 3 1
    Bowdoin 6 4 2
    Carleton 7 8 1
    Pomona 7 4 3
    Claremont McKenna 9 9  
    Davidson 9 9  
    Washington and Lee 11 14 3
    Colby 12 19 7
    Colgate 12 19 7
    Hamilton 12 14 2
    Haverford 12 12  
    Naval Academy 12 9 3
    Smith 12 14 2
    Vassar 12 12  
    Grinnell 19 19  
    West Point 19 22 3
    Harvey Mudd 21 14 7
    Wesleyan 21 14 7
    Scripps 23 29 6
    Colorado College 24 25 1
    Macalester 24 23 1
    Oberlin 24 23 1
    Barnard 27 29 2
    Bates 27 25 2
    Kenyon 27 25 2
    University of Richmond 27 32 5
    Bryn Mawr 31 25 6
    Air Force Academy 32 29 3
    Bucknell 32 32  
    Holy Cross 32 32  
    Pitzer 32 36 4
    Lafayette 36 37 1
    Mount Holyoke 36 35 1
    Skidmore 38 38  
    Trinity College 38 43 5
    Union College 38 38  
    Centre College 41 45 4
    Dickinson College 41 40 1
    Whitman College 41 40 1
    Franklin & Marshall 44 40 4
    Occidental 44 43 1
    Rhodes College 44 51 7
    Sewanee 47 48 1
    Bard 49 45 4
    Connecticut College 50 48 2
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