U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2014 rankings released

Princeton University has taken top spot among US national universities in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2014 rankings

September 10, 2013

Alexander Hall, Princeton University

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014 coming 2 October 2013

The institution finished first in the annual rankings, ahead of Harvard, after finishing joint first with its Ivy League rival last year.

In the separate U.S. News ranking of national liberal arts colleges, Williams College finished first, as it did last year.

U.S. News says its rankings allow comparisons between institutions “based on such widely accepted indicators of excellence as freshman retention, graduation rates, and the strength of the faculty”.

Changes to the methodology in this year’s rankings include lowering the weighting for “student selectivity” from 15 per cent of a college’s total to 12.5 per cent, following criticisms from some quarters.

In the national universities ranking, Stanford University rose to fifth, up from joint sixth last year.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology fell one place to joint seventh, from joint sixth last year.

Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania rose from joint eighth last year to joint seventh this year.

Meanwhile, in the national liberal arts colleges ranking, Bowdoin College in Maine rose from joint sixth to joint fourth.

Davidson College in North Carolina rose from joint twelth to joint ninth.

Among historically black colleges and universities, Spelman College in Georgia was rated first.

john.morgan@tsleducation.com

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U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2014 top 100

Rank	Institution	Score
1	Princeton University	100
2	Harvard University	99
3	Yale University	97
4	Columbia University	95
5	Stanford University	94
5	University of Chicago	94
7	Duke University	92
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	92
7	University of Pennsylvania	92
10	California Institute of Technology	91
10	Dartmouth College	91
12	Johns Hopkins University	89
12	Northwestern University	89
14	Brown University	87
14	Washington University in St. Louis	87
16	Cornell University	85
17	Vanderbilt University	84
18	Rice University	83
18	University of Notre Dame	83
20	Emory University	79
20	Georgetown University	79
20	University of California, Berkeley	79
23	Carnegie Mellon University	76
23	University of California, Los Angeles	76
23	University of Southern California	76
23	University of Virginia	76
23	Wake Forest University	76
28	Tufts University	74
28	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	74
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	72
31	Boston College	70
32	Brandeis University	69
32	William and Mary	69
32	New York University	69
32	University of Rochester	69
36	Georgia Institute of Technology	67
37	Case Western Reserve University	66
37	Pennsylvania State University	66
39	University of California, Davis	65
39	University of California, San Diego	65
41	Boston University	64
41	Lehigh University	64
41	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	64
41	University of California, Santa Barbara	64
41	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	64
41	University of Wisconsin-Madison	64
47	University of Miami	63
47	Yeshiva University	63
49	Northeastern University	62
49	University of California, Irvine	62
49	University of Florida	62
52	George Washington University	61
52	Ohio State University	61
52	Tulane University	61
52	University of Texas at Austin	61
52	University of Washington	61
57	Fordham University	60
57	Pepperdine University	60
57	University of Connecticut	60
60	Southern Methodist University	59
60	University of Georgia	59
62	Brigham Young University, Provo	58
62	Clemson University	58
62	Syracuse University	58
62	University of Maryland, College Park	58
62	University of Pittsburgh	58
62	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	58
68	Purdue University	57
69	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	56
69	Texas A&M University	56
69	University of Minnesota	56
69	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	56
73	Michigan State University	54
73	University of Iowa	54
75	American University	53
75	Baylor University	53
75	Clark University	53
75	Indiana University	53
75	Marquette University	53
75	Miami University, Oxford	53
75	University of Delaware	53
82	Stevens Institute of Technology	52
82	Stony Brook University	52
82	Texas Christian University	52
82	University of Vermont	52
86	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry	51
86	University of Alabama	51
86	University of California, Santa Cruz	51
86	University of Colorado, Boulder	51
86	University of Tulsa	51
91	Auburn University	50
91	Colorado School of Mines	50
91	Florida State University	50
91	University of Denver	50
91	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	50
91	University of San Diego	50
97	Binghamton University, State University of New York	49
97	Drexel University	49
97	University of Missouri	49
97	University of New Hampshire	49

U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2014 rankings released

Princeton University has taken top spot among US national universities in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2014 rankings

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014 coming 2 October 2013

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U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2014 rankings released

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