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

Editorial team Sep 13, 2016 · 3 min read
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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  
Yale 3 3  
Columbia 5 4
Stanford 5 4
MIT 7 7  
Duke 8 8  
University of Pennsylvania 8 9
Johns Hopkins 10 10  
Dartmouth 11 12
Caltech 12 10
Northwestern 12 12  
Brown 14 14  
Cornell 15 15  
Notre Dame 15 18
Rice 15 18
Vanderbilt 15 15  
Washington University in St. Louis 19 15
Emory 20 21
Georgetown 20 21
UC Berkeley 20 20  
USC 23 23  
Carnegie Mellon 24 23
UCLA 24 23
University of Virginia 24 26
Tufts 27 27  
University of Michigan 27 29
Wake Forest 27 27  
UNC Chapel Hill 30 30  
Boston College 31 30
University of Rochester 32 33
William & Mary 32 34
Brandeis 34 34  
Georgia Tech 34 36
NYU 36 32
Case Western 37 37  
UC Santa Barbara 37 37  
Boston University 39 41
Northeastern University 39 47
RPI 39 41
Tulane 39 41
UC Irvine 39 39  
Lehigh 44 47
UC Davis 44 41
UC San Diego 44 39
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign 44 41
University of Miami 44 51
University of Wisconsin - Madison 44 41
Penn State 50 47
Pepperdine 50 52
University of Florida 50 47 3
Villanova 50 Regionally Ranked