U.S. News & World Report Posts 2024 College Rankings

Editorial team Sep 18, 2023 · 3 min read
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usnwr bestcollegesU.S. News & World Report released their 2024 college rankings yesterday.  Approximately 80% of the nearly 1,500 schools ranked returned their information, including 99 of the top 100 ranked national universities and 97 of the top 100 ranked national liberal arts colleges.

Significant changes were made to this year's methodology, including more emphasis on social mobility and outcomes and changes to weightings.

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 (2024 vs 2023)

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InstitutionRank (2024)Rank (2023)Change
Princeton 1 1  
MIT 2 2  
Harvard 3 3  
Stanford 3 3  
Yale 5 3 2
University of Pennsylvania 6 7 1
Caltech 7 9 2
Duke 7 10 3
Brown 9 13 4
Johns Hopkins 9 7 2
Northwestern 9 10 1
Columbia 12 18 6
Cornell 12 17 5
University of Chicago 12 6 6
UC Berkeley 15 20 5
UCLA 15 20 5
Rice 17 15 2
Dartmouth 18 12 6
Vanderbilt 18 13 5
Notre Dame 20 18 2
University of Michigan 21 25 4
Georgetown 22 22  
UNC Chapel Hill 22 29 7
Carnegie Mellon 24 22 2
Emory 24 22 2
University of Virginia 24 25 1
Washington University in St. Louis 24 15 9
UC San Diego 27 34 7
UC Davis 28 38 10
University of Florida 28 29 1
USC 28 25 3
UT Austin 32 38 6
Georgia Tech 33 44 11
UC Irvine 33 34 1
NYU 35 25 10
UC Santa Barbara 35 32 3
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 35 41 6
University of Wisconsin - Madison 35 38 3
Boston College 39 36 3
Rutgers University - New Brunswick 40 55 15
Tufts 40 32 8
University of Washington 40 55 15
Boston University 43 41 2
Ohio State 43 49 6
Purdue 43 51 8
University of Maryland - College Park 46 55 9
Lehigh 47 51 4
Texas A&M 47 67 20
University of Georgia 47 49 2
University of Rochester 47 36 11
Virginia Tech 47 62 15
Wake Forest 47 29 18