At 12:01 this morning, U.S. News & World Report released its 2010 College Rankings. Here are the Top 25 National Universities (along with their 2008 and 2009 rankings):
2010 Rank | 2009 Rank | 2008 Rank | School |
1 | 1 | 2 | Harvard |
1 | 2 | 1 | Princeton |
3 | 3 | 3 | Yale |
4 | 6 | 6 | Cal-Tech |
4 | 4 | 7 | MIT |
4 | 6 | Penn | |
4 | 5 | Stanford | |
8 | 8 | 9 | Chicago |
8 | 8 | 9 | Columbia |
10 | 8 | 8 | Duke |
11 | 11 | 11 | Dartmouth |
12 | 12 | 14 | Northwestern |
12 | 12 | 12 | Washington (St. Louis) |
14 | 15 | 14 | Johns Hopkins |
15 | 14 | 12 | Cornell |
16 | 16 | 14 | Brown |
17 | 18 | 17 | Emory |
17 | 17 | 17 | Rice |
17 | 18 | 19 | Vanderbilt |
20 | 18 | 19 | Notre Dame |
21 | 21 | 21 | UC-Berkeley |
22 | 22 | 22 | Carnegie-Mellon |
23 | 23 | 23 | |
24 | 25 | 25 | UCLA |
24 | 23 | 23 | Virginia |
Here are the Top 25 Liberal Arts Colleges (along with their 2008 and 2009 rankings):
2010 Rank | 2009 Rank | 2008 Rank | School |
1 | 1 | 1 | Williams |
2 | 1 | 2 | Amherst |
3 | 3 | 3 | Swarthmore |
4 | 5 | 5 | Middlebury |
4 | 4 | 4 | Wellesley |
6 | 6 | 7 | Bowdoin |
6 | 6 | 7 | Pamona |
8 | 8 | 5 | Carleton |
8 | 9 | 9 | Davidson |
10 | 10 | 10 | Haverford |
11 | 11 | 11 | Claremont-McKenna |
11 | 11 | 11 | Vassar |
13 | 13 | 11 | Wesleyan |
14 | 14 | 11 | Grinnell |
14 | 14 | 15 | Harvey Mudd |
14 | 14 | 22 | U.S. Military Academy |
14 | 17 | 15 | Washington & Lee |
18 | 18 | 17 | Smith |
19 | 18 | 17 | Colgate |
19 | 22 | 20 | U.S. Naval Academy |
21 | 20 | 17 | Hamilton |
22 | 24 | 22 | Colby College |
22 | 20 | 20 | Oberlin |
24 | 30 | 26 | Colorado College |
25 | 25 | 24 | Bates |
25 | 23 | 25 | Bryn Mawr |
25 | 27 | 28 | Mount Holyoke |
25 | 27 | 28 | Scripps |
Press and blogosphere coverage:
- Associated Press: Harvard, Princeton Top College Rankings Again
- Bloomberg: Princeton, Harvard Share Top Spot in U.S. News College Rankings
- Chronicle of Higher Education: In the Latest ‘U.S. News’ Survey, a Higher Response Rate and the Usual Winners
- Inside Higher Ed: Rankings Frenzy ’09
- Time: Q & A: The Man Behind U.S. News College Rankings
- Wall Street Journal: Harvard, Princeton Top US News List
