usnwr bestcollegesU.S. News & World Report released their 2023 college rankings earlier today.  1,500 schools were covered nationwide and evaluated on up to 17 measures of academic quality.

This year's methodology adjusts for the decline in SAT/ACT test takers, introduces a more comprehensive measure of faculty resources and reflects changes to Carenegie Classifications made in 2021.

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 (2023 vs 2022)

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InstitutionRank (2023)Rank (2022)Change
Princeton 1 1  
MIT 2 2  
Harvard 3 2 1
Stanford 3 6 3
Yale 3 5 2
University of Chicago 6 6  
Johns Hopkins 7 9 2
University of Pennsylvania 7 8 1
Caltech 9 9  
Duke 10 9 1
Northwestern 10 9 1
Dartmouth 12 13 1
Brown 13 14 1
Vanderbilt 13 14 1
Rice 15 17 2
Washington University in St. Louis 15 14 1
Cornell 17 17  
Columbia 18 2 16
Notre Dame 18 19 1
UC Berkeley 20 22 2
UCLA 20 20  
Carnegie Mellon 22 25 3
Emory 22 21 1
Georgetown 22 23 1
NYU 25 28 3
University of Michigan 25 23 2
University of Virginia 25 25  
USC 25 27 2
UNC Chapel Hill 29 28 1
University of Florida 29 28 1
Wake Forest 29 28 1
Tufts 32 28 4
UC Santa Barbara 32 28 4
UC Irvine 34 36 2
UC San Diego 34 34  
Boston College 36 36  
University of Rochester 36 34 2
UC Davis 38 38  
University of Wisconsin - Madison 38 42 4
UT Austin 38 38  
Boston University 41 42 1
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 41 47 6
William & Mary 41 38 3
Brandeis 44 42 2
Case Western 44 42 2
Georgia Tech 44 38 6
Northeastern University 44 49 5
Tulane 44 42 2
Ohio State 49 49  
University of Georgia 49 48 1