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