U.S. News & World Report Posts 2021 College Rankings

Editorial team Sep 14, 2020 · 3 min read
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usnwr bestcollegesU.S. News & World Report released their 2021 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.

This year's methodology includes consideration of new student debt metrics, social mobility and inclusion of test-blind institutions. The weighting of outcomes has also increased.

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 (2021 vs 2020)

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InstitutionRank (2021)Rank (2020)Change
Princeton 1 1  
Harvard 2 2  
Columbia 3 3  
MIT 4 3
Yale 4 3
Stanford 6 6  
University of Chicago 6 6  
University of Pennsylvania 8 6
Caltech 9 12
Johns Hopkins 9 10
Northwestern 9 9  
Duke 12 10
Dartmouth 13 12
Brown 14 14  
Vanderbilt 14 15
Rice 16 17
Washington University in St. Louis 16 19
Cornell 18 17
Notre Dame 19 15
UCLA 20 20  
Emory 21 21  
UC Berkeley 22 22  
Georgetown 23 24
University of Michigan 24 25
USC 24 22
Carnegie Mellon 26 25
University of Virginia 26 28
UNC Chapel Hill 28 29
Wake Forest 28 27
NYU 30 29
Tufts 30 29
UC Santa Barbara 30 34
University of Florida 30 34
University of Rochester 34 29
Boston College 35 37
Georgia Tech 35 29
UC Irvine 35 36
UC San Diego 35 37
UC Davis 39 39  
William & Mary 39 40
Tulane 41 40
Boston University 42 40
Brandeis 42 40
Case Western 42 40
University of Wisconsin - Madison 42 46
UT Austin 42 48
University of Georgia 47 50
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 47 48
Lehigh 49 50
Northeastern University 49 40
Pepperdine 49 50
University of Miami 49 57