12 September 2017
U.S. News & World Report Posts 2018 College Rankings
U.S. News & World Report released their 2018 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 (2018 vs 2017)
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Institution Rank (2018) Rank (2017) Change Princeton 1 1 Harvard 2 2 University of Chicago 3 4 1 Yale 3 3 Columbia 5 5 MIT 5 7 2 Stanford 5 5 University of Pennsylvania 8 8 Duke 9 8 1 Caltech 10 12 2 Dartmouth 11 11 Johns Hopkins 11 10 1 Northwestern 11 12 1 Brown 14 14 Cornell 14 15 1 Rice 14 15 1 Vanderbilt 14 15 1 Notre Dame 18 15 3 Washington University in St. Louis 18 19 1 Georgetown 20 20 Emory 21 20 1 UC Berkeley 21 20 1 UCLA 21 24 3 USC 21 23 2 Carnegie Mellon 25 24 1 University of Virginia 25 24 1 Wake Forest 27 27 University of Michigan 28 27 1 Tufts 29 27 2 NYU 30 36 6 UNC Chapel Hill 30 30 Boston College 32 31 1 William & Mary 32 32 Brandeis 34 34 Georgia Tech 34 34 University of Rochester 34 32 2 Boston University 37 39 2 Case Western 37 37 UC Santa Barbara 37 37 Northeastern University 40 39 1 Tulane 40 39 1 RPI 42 39 3 UC Irvine 42 39 3 UC San Diego 42 44 2 University of Florida 42 50 8 Lehigh 46 44 2 Pepperdine 46 50 4 UC Davis 46 44 2 University of Miami 46 44 2 University of Wisconsin - Madison 46 44 2 Villanova 46 50 4 Institution Rank (2017) Rank (2016) Change Williams 1 1 Amherst 2 2 Bowdoin 3 6 3 Swarthmore 3 4 1 Wellesley 3 3 Middlebury 6 4 2 Pomona 6 7 1 Carleton 8 7 1 Claremont McKenna 8 9 1 Davidson 10 9 1 Washington and Lee 10 11 1 Colby 12 12 Colgate 12 12 Harvey Mudd 12 21 9 Vassar 12 12 West Point 12 19 7 Smith 13 12 1 Grinnell 18 19 1 Hamilton 18 12 6 Haverford 18 12 6 Naval Academy 21 12 9 Wesleyan 21 21 Bates 23 27 4 Colorado College 23 24 1 University of Richmond 23 27 4 Air Force Academy 26 32 6 Barnard 26 27 1 Kenyon 26 27 1 Macalester 26 24 2 Oberlin 26 24 2 Scripps 26 23 3 Bryn Mawr 32 31 1 Bucknell 33 32 1 Holy Cross 33 32 1 Pitzer 33 32 1 Lafayette 36 36 Mount Holyoke 36 36 Union College 36 38 2 Franklin & Marshall 39 44 5 Soka University of America 39 41 2 Occidental 41 44 3 Sewanee 41 47 6 Skidmore 41 38 3 Whitman College 41 41 Trinity College 44 38 6 Bard 46 49 3 Centre College 46 41 5 Connecticut College 46 50 4 Denison 46 51 5 Gettysburg 46 51 5
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