U.S. News & World Report Posts 2016 College Rankings

Editorial team Sep 9, 2015 · 3 min read
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usnwr bestcollegesU.S. News & World Report released their 2016 college rankings earlier today.  Nearly 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 (2016 vs 2015)

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InstitutionRank (2016)Rank (2015)Change
Princeton University 1 1  
Harvard University 2 2  
Yale University 3 3  
Columbia University 4 4  
Stanford University 4 4  
University of Chicago 4 4  
MIT 7 7  
Duke University 8 8  
University of Pennsylvania 9 8 1
California Institute of Technology 10 10  
Johns Hopkins University 10 12 2
Dartmouth University 12 11 1
Northwestern University 12 13 1
Brown University 14 16 2
Cornell University 15 15  
Vanderbilt University 15 16 1
Washington University in St. Louis 15 14 1
Rice University 18 19 1
University of Notre Dame 18 16 2
UC Berkeley 20 20  
Emory University 21 21  
Georgetown University 21 21  
Carnegie Mellon University 23 25 2
UCLA 23 23  
University of Southern California 23 25 2
University of Virginia 26 23 3
Tufts University 27 27  
Wake Forest University 27 27  
University of Michigan 29 29  
Boston College 30 31 1
UNC Chapel Hill 30 30  
NYU 32 32  
University of Rochester 33 33  
Brandeis University 34 35 1
College of William & Mary 34 33 1
Georgia Tech 36 35 1
Case Western 37 38 1
UC Santa Barbara 37 40 3
UC Irvine 39 42 3
UC San Diego 39 37 2
Boston University 41 42 1
RPI 41 42 1
Tulane University 41 54 13
UC Davis 41 38 3
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 41 42 1
University of Wisconsin 41 47 6
Lehigh University 47 40 7
Northeastern University 47 42 5
Penn State University 47 48 1
University of Florida 47 48 1