24 September 2024
U.S. News & World Report Posts 2025 College Rankings
U.S. News & World Report released their 2025 college rankings this morning. Nearly 1,500 schools were ranked based on 17 factors, with the methodology mostly unchanged from the previous year.
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 (2025 vs 2024)
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Institution Rank (2025) Rank (2024) Change Princeton 1 1 MIT 2 2 Harvard 3 3 Stanford 4 3 1 Yale 5 5 Caltech 6 7 1 Duke 6 7 1 Johns Hopkins 6 9 3 Northwestern 6 9 3 University of Pennsylvania 10 6 4 Cornell 11 12 1 University of Chicago 11 12 1 Brown 13 9 4 Columbia 13 12 1 Dartmouth 15 18 3 UCLA 15 15 UC Berkeley 17 15 2 Notre Dame 18 20 2 Rice 18 17 1 Vanderbilt 18 18 Carnegie Mellon 21 24 3 University of Michigan 21 21 Washington University in St. Louis 21 24 3 Emory 24 24 Georgetown 24 22 2 University of Virginia 24 24 UNC Chapel Hill 27 22 5 USC 27 28 1 UC San Diego 29 27 2 NYU 30 35 5 University of Florida 30 28 2 UT Austin 30 32 2 Georgia Tech 33 33 UC Davis 33 28 5 UC Irvine 33 33 University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 33 35 2 Boston College 37 39 2 Tufts 37 40 3 UC Santa Barbara 39 35 4 University of Wisconsin - Madison 39 35 4 Boston University 41 43 2 Ohio State 41 43 2 Rutgers University - New Brunswick 41 40 1 University of Maryland - College Park 44 46 2 University of Rochester 44 47 3 Lehigh 46 47 1 Purdue 46 43 3 University of Georgia 46 47 1 University of Washington 46 40 6 Wake Forest 46 47 1 -
Institution Rank (2025) Rank (2024) Change Williams 1 1 Amherst 2 2 Swarthmore 3 4 1 Naval Academy 4 3 1 Bowdoin 5 9 4 Pomona 5 4 1 Wellesley 7 4 3 Air Force Academy 8 7 1 Carleton 8 9 1 Claremont McKenna 8 11 3 West Point 8 8 Harvey Mudd 12 16 4 Vassar 12 16 4 Barnard 14 11 3 Davidson 14 16 2 Hamilton 14 16 2 Smith 14 16 2 Wesleyan 14 11 3 Grinnell 19 11 8 Middlebury 19 11 8 Washington and Lee 19 21 2 Colgate 22 21 1 University of Richmond 22 25 3 Haverford 24 21 3 Colby 25 25 Bates 26 24 2 Macalester 26 27 1 Holy Cross 28 27 1 Bryn Mawr 29 30 1 Colorado College 29 29 Bucknell 31 30 1 Franklin & Marshall 31 35 4 Lafayette 31 30 1 Mount Holyoke 34 34 Occidental 34 35 1 Denison 36 39 3 Pitzer 36 39 3 Skidmore 36 38 2 Trinity College 36 39 3 Berea College 40 30 10 Soka University of America 40 56 16 Spelman College 40 39 1 Trinity University 40 59 19 Union College 40 45 5 Scripps 44 35 9 Dickinson 45 46 1 Furman 45 46 1 Kenyon 45 39 6 University of the South 45 51 6 DePauw University 50 46 4 Hillsdale 50 39 11 St. Olaf College 50 51 1
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