U.S. News & World Report Posts 2022 College Rankings

Editorial team Sep 14, 2021 · 3 min read
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usnwr bestcollegesU.S. News & World Report released their 2022 college rankings yesterday.  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 adjusts for the decline in SAT/ACT test takers and continues to include test-blind institutions.

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 (2022 vs 2021)

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InstitutionRank (2022)Rank (2021)Change
Princeton 1 1  
Columbia 2 3
Harvard 2 2  
MIT 2 4
Yale 5 4
Stanford 6 6  
University of Chicago 6 6  
University of Pennsylvania 8 8  
Caltech 9 9  
Duke 9 12
Johns Hopkins 9 9  
Northwestern 9 9  
Dartmouth 13 13  
Brown 14 14  
Vanderbilt 14 14  
Washington University in St. Louis 14 16
Cornell 17 18
Rice 17 16
Notre Dame 19 19  
UCLA 20 20  
Emory 21 21  
UC Berkeley 22 22  
Georgetown 23 23  
University of Michigan 23 24
Carnegie Mellon 25 26
University of Virginia 25 26
USC 27 24
NYU 28 30
Tufts 28 30
UC Santa Barbara 28 30
UNC Chapel Hill 28 28  
University of Florida 28 30
Wake Forest 28 28  
UC San Diego 34 35
University of Rochester 34 34  
Boston College 36 35
UC Irvine 36 35
Georgia Tech 38 35
UC Davis 38 39
UT Austin 38 42
William & Mary 38 39
Boston University 42 42  
Brandeis 42 42  
Case Western 42 42  
Tulane 42 41
University of Wisconsin - Madison 42 42  
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 47 47  
University of Georgia 48 47
Lehigh 49 49  
Northeastern University 49 49  
Ohio State 49 49  
Pepperdine 49 49  
Purdue 49 53
Villanova 49 53