Princeton tops list of 2017 U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings
Princeton University remains the top national university according to the annual U.S. News & World Report 2017 Best Colleges Rankings.
The annual survey, released Tuesday, assesses more than 18,000 U.S. based colleges and universities, of which 1,374 are ranked.
Princeton University was followed closely by Harvard University. The University of Chicago, which was ranked ninth ten-years-ago, tied with Yale University for the third best national college this year.
"Johns Hopkins has had a similar jump – from No. 16 a decade ago to making the top 10 for the past two years," Robert Morse, chief data strategist at U.S. News said in an email. "Both schools have risen as a result of improving their graduation and freshman retention rates, as well as their SAT/ACT score."
The institutions receive rankings based on some 15 measures of academic quality, including retention, graduation rate performance, faculty resources, financial resources, and alumni giving.
This year, U.S. News modified the way it factored class size into the methodology to more accurately reflect class sizes at different campuses.
The report ranks colleges and universities within several categories, including National Universities, National Liberal Arts Colleges, Regional Universities and Regional Colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
You can find the complete rankings here.
Here are the top 20 National Universities:
1. Princeton University
2. Harvard University
3. University of Chicago
3. Yale University
5. Columbia University
5. Stanford University
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8. Duke University
8. University of Pennsylvania
10. Johns Hopkins University
11. Dartmouth College
12. California Institute of Technology
12. Northwestern University
14. Brown University
15. Cornell University
15. Rice University
15. University of Notre Dame
15. Vanderbilt University
19. Washington University in St. Louis
20. Emory University
20. Georgetown University
20. University of California-Berkeley
Report: Top Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Here are the Top 10 Public National Universities:
1. University of California - Berkeley
2. University of California - Los Angeles
2. University of Virginia
4. University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor
5. University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill
6. College of William and Mary
7. Georgia Institute of Technology
8. University of California - Santa Barbara
9. University of California - Irvine
10. University of California- Davis
10. University of California - San Diego
10. University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
10. University of Wisconsin-Madison