U.S. News & World Report Posts 2023 College Rankings
U.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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| Institution | Rank (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 |
| Institution | Rank (2023) | Rank (2022) | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams | 1 | 1 | |
| Amherst | 2 | 2 | |
| Pomona | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Swarthmore | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Wellesley | 5 | 5 | |
| Bowdoin | 6 | 6 | |
| Carleton | 6 | 9 | 3 |
| Naval Academy | 6 | 6 | |
| Claremont McKenna | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| West Point | 9 | 11 | 2 |
| Middlebury | 11 | 9 | 2 |
| Washington and Lee | 11 | 11 | |
| Smith | 13 | 17 | 4 |
| Vassar | 13 | 22 | 9 |
| Davidson | 15 | 13 | 2 |
| Grinnell | 15 | 13 | 2 |
| Hamilton | 15 | 13 | 2 |
| Air Force Academy | 18 | 22 | 4 |
| Barnard | 18 | 17 | 1 |
| Colgate | 18 | 17 | 1 |
| Haverford | 18 | 16 | 2 |
| University of Richmond | 18 | 22 | 4 |
| Wesleyan | 18 | 17 | 1 |
| Colby | 24 | 17 | 7 |
| Bates | 25 | 25 | |
| Berea College | 26 | 30 | 4 |
| Colorado College | 27 | 26 | 1 |
| Macalester | 27 | 27 | |
| Harvey Mudd | 29 | 28 | 1 |
| Soka University of America | 29 | 29 | |
| Bryn Mawr | 31 | 30 | 1 |
| Kenyon | 31 | 30 | 1 |
| Holy Cross | 33 | 35 | 2 |
| Pitzer | 33 | 35 | 2 |
| Scripps | 33 | 30 | 3 |
| Mount Holyoke | 36 | 30 | 6 |
| Bucknell | 37 | 38 | 1 |
| Occidental | 37 | 42 | 5 |
| Denison | 39 | 42 | 3 |
| Franklin & Marshall | 39 | 42 | 3 |
| Lafayette | 39 | 38 | 1 |
| Oberlin | 39 | 37 | 2 |
| Skidmore | 39 | 38 | 1 |
| Trinity College | 39 | 46 | 7 |
| DePauw University | 45 | 46 | 1 |
| Furman | 45 | 46 | 1 |
| Thomas Aquinas | 45 | 42 | 3 |
| Hillsdale | 48 | 46 | 2 |
| Union College | 48 | 50 | 2 |
| Whitman College | 48 | 38 | 10 |