U.S. News & World Report Posts 2019 College Rankings

Editorial team Sep 10, 2018 · 3 min read
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usnwr bestcollegesU.S. News & World Report released their 2019 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.

Social mobility indicators were added this year, while the acceptance rate was eliminated as a factor and others like expert opinions and test scores were reduced in weighting.

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 (2019 vs 2018)

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InstitutionRank (2019)Rank (2018)Change
Princeton 1 1  
Harvard 2 2  
Columbia 3 5
MIT 3 5
University of Chicago 3 3  
Yale 3 3  
Stanford 7 5
Duke 8 9
University of Pennsylvania 8 8  
Johns Hopkins 10 11
Northwestern 10 11
Caltech 12 10
Dartmouth 12 11
Brown 14 14  
Vanderbilt 14 14  
Cornell 16 14
Rice 16 14
Notre Dame 18 18  
UCLA 19 21
Washington University in St. Louis 19 18
Emory 21 21  
Georgetown 22 20
UC Berkeley 22 21
USC 22 21
Carnegie Mellon 25 25  
University of Virginia 25 25  
Tufts 27 29
University of Michigan 27 28
Wake Forest 27 27  
NYU 30 30  
UC Santa Barbara 30 37
UNC Chapel Hill 30 30  
UC Irvine 33 42
University of Rochester 33 34
Brandeis 35 34
Georgia Tech 35 34
University of Florida 35 42
Boston College 38 32
UC Davis 38 46
William & Mary 38 32
UC San Diego 41 42
Boston University 42 37
Case Western 42 37
Northeastern University 44 40
Tulane 44 40
Pepperdine 46 46  
University of Georgia 46 56
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 46 44
RPI 49 42
University of Wisconsin - Madison 49 46
UT Austin 49 56
Villanova 49 46