U.S. News & World Report Posts 2020 College Rankings

Editorial team Sep 9, 2019 · 3 min read
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usnwr bestcollegesU.S. News & World Report released their 2020 college rankings earlier today.  Over 1,400 schools were covered nationwide and evaluated on multiple measures of academic excellence and outcomes to produce the final rankings.

Approximately 13 percent of institutions were reclassified to changes in the underlying Carnegie classification system in 2018.

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 (2020 vs 2019)

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InstitutionRank (2020)Rank (2019)Change
Princeton 1 1  
Harvard 2 2  
Columbia 3 3  
MIT 3 3  
Yale 3 3  
Stanford 6 7
University of Chicago 6 3
University of Pennsylvania 6 8
Northwestern 9 10
Duke 10 8
Johns Hopkins 10 10  
Caltech 12 12  
Dartmouth 12 12  
Brown 14 14  
Notre Dame 15 18
Vanderbilt 15 14
Cornell 17 16
Rice 17 16
Washington University in St. Louis 19 19  
UCLA 20 19
Emory 21 21  
UC Berkeley 22 22  
USC 22 22  
Georgetown 24 22
Carnegie Mellon 25 25  
University of Michigan 25 27
Wake Forest 27 27  
University of Virginia 28 25
Georgia Tech 29 35
NYU 29 30
Tufts 29 27
UNC Chapel Hill 29 30
University of Rochester 29 33
UC Santa Barbara 34 30
University of Florida 34 35
UC Irvine 36 33
Boston College 37 38
UC San Diego 37 41
UC Davis 39 38
Boston University 40 42
Brandeis 40 35
Case Western 40 42
William & Mary 40 38
Northeastern University 40 44
Tulane 40 44
University of Wisconsin - Madison 46 49
Villanova 46 49
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 48 46
UT Austin 48 49
Lehigh 50 53
Pepperdine 50 46
RPI 50 49
University of Georgia 50 46