U.S. News & World Report Posts 2025 College Rankings

Editorial team Sep 24, 2024 · 3 min read
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usnwr bestcollegesU.S. News & World Report released their 2025 college rankings this morning.  Nearly 1,500 schools were ranked based on 17 factors, with the methodology mostly unchanged from the previous year.  

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 (2025 vs 2024)

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InstitutionRank (2025)Rank (2024)Change
Princeton 1 1  
MIT 2 2  
Harvard 3 3  
Stanford 4 3 1
Yale 5 5  
Caltech 6 7 1
Duke 6 7 1
Johns Hopkins 6 9 3
Northwestern 6 9 3
University of Pennsylvania 10 6 4
Cornell 11 12 1
University of Chicago 11 12 1
Brown 13 9 4
Columbia 13 12 1
Dartmouth 15 18 3
UCLA 15 15  
UC Berkeley 17 15 2
Notre Dame 18 20 2
Rice 18 17 1
Vanderbilt 18 18  
Carnegie Mellon 21 24 3
University of Michigan 21 21  
Washington University in St. Louis 21 24 3
Emory 24 24  
Georgetown 24 22 2
University of Virginia 24 24  
UNC Chapel Hill 27 22 5
USC 27 28 1
UC San Diego 29 27 2
NYU 30 35 5
University of Florida 30 28 2
UT Austin 30 32 2
Georgia Tech 33 33  
UC Davis 33 28 5
UC Irvine 33 33  
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign 33 35 2
Boston College 37 39 2
Tufts 37 40 3
UC Santa Barbara 39 35 4
University of Wisconsin - Madison 39 35 4
Boston University 41 43 2
Ohio State 41 43 2
Rutgers University - New Brunswick 41 40 1
University of Maryland - College Park 44 46 2
University of Rochester 44 47 3
Lehigh 46 47 1
Purdue 46 43 3
University of Georgia 46 47 1
University of Washington 46 40 6
Wake Forest 46 47 1