12 September 2022
U.S. News & World Report Posts 2023 College Rankings
U.S. News & World Report released their 2023 college rankings earlier today. 1,500 schools were covered nationwide and evaluated on up to 17 measures of academic quality.
This year's methodology adjusts for the decline in SAT/ACT test takers, introduces a more comprehensive measure of faculty resources and reflects changes to Carenegie Classifications made in 2021.
Princeton retains sole possession 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 (2023 vs 2022)
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Institution Rank (2023) Rank (2022) Change Princeton 1 1 MIT 2 2 Harvard 3 2 1 Stanford 3 6 3 Yale 3 5 2 University of Chicago 6 6 Johns Hopkins 7 9 2 University of Pennsylvania 7 8 1 Caltech 9 9 Duke 10 9 1 Northwestern 10 9 1 Dartmouth 12 13 1 Brown 13 14 1 Vanderbilt 13 14 1 Rice 15 17 2 Washington University in St. Louis 15 14 1 Cornell 17 17 Columbia 18 2 16 Notre Dame 18 19 1 UC Berkeley 20 22 2 UCLA 20 20 Carnegie Mellon 22 25 3 Emory 22 21 1 Georgetown 22 23 1 NYU 25 28 3 University of Michigan 25 23 2 University of Virginia 25 25 USC 25 27 2 UNC Chapel Hill 29 28 1 University of Florida 29 28 1 Wake Forest 29 28 1 Tufts 32 28 4 UC Santa Barbara 32 28 4 UC Irvine 34 36 2 UC San Diego 34 34 Boston College 36 36 University of Rochester 36 34 2 UC Davis 38 38 University of Wisconsin - Madison 38 42 4 UT Austin 38 38 Boston University 41 42 1 University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 41 47 6 William & Mary 41 38 3 Brandeis 44 42 2 Case Western 44 42 2 Georgia Tech 44 38 6 Northeastern University 44 49 5 Tulane 44 42 2 Ohio State 49 49 University of Georgia 49 48 1 -
Institution Rank (2023) Rank (2022) Change Williams 1 1 Amherst 2 2 Pomona 3 4 1 Swarthmore 4 3 1 Wellesley 5 5 Bowdoin 6 6 Carleton 6 9 3 Naval Academy 6 6 Claremont McKenna 9 8 1 West Point 9 11 2 Middlebury 11 9 2 Washington and Lee 11 11 Smith 13 17 4 Vassar 13 22 9 Davidson 15 13 2 Grinnell 15 13 2 Hamilton 15 13 2 Air Force Academy 18 22 4 Barnard 18 17 1 Colgate 18 17 1 Haverford 18 16 2 University of Richmond 18 22 4 Wesleyan 18 17 1 Colby 24 17 7 Bates 25 25 Berea College 26 30 4 Colorado College 27 26 1 Macalester 27 27 Harvey Mudd 29 28 1 Soka University of America 29 29 Bryn Mawr 31 30 1 Kenyon 31 30 1 Holy Cross 33 35 2 Pitzer 33 35 2 Scripps 33 30 3 Mount Holyoke 36 30 6 Bucknell 37 38 1 Occidental 37 42 5 Denison 39 42 3 Franklin & Marshall 39 42 3 Lafayette 39 38 1 Oberlin 39 37 2 Skidmore 39 38 1 Trinity College 39 46 7 DePauw University 45 46 1 Furman 45 46 1 Thomas Aquinas 45 42 3 Hillsdale 48 46 2 Union College 48 50 2 Whitman College 48 38 10
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