2025 U.S. News Rankings

[NiceUnparticularMan]

So as not to repeat myself, I’ll just link this:

NESCAC Spoken Here:

By the time a lot of higher education institutions were being founded in most other regions of the country, the most popular form had moved on to what became modern research universities, as opposed to LACs. In fact here is a quick (Wikipedia based, so accept some errors) accounting of the founding dates of the top 20 on the US News list: 1: 1793 2: 1821 3: 1864 4: 1845 t-5: 1794, 1887 7: 1870 t-8: 1802, 1866, 1946, 1954 t-12: 1861, 1955 t-14: 1793, 1837, 1839, 1871, 1889 t-19: 1749, 1800, 1846 The only three in the 20th Century are two of the Claremont Colleges (CMC and Mudd), and the Air Force Academy. In fact even a lot of the later ones in the 19th Century are specifically women’s colleges, which trailed in founding a bit. You can actually see this too if you look at this map. It is a couple years out of date now, but still gives you the idea: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/where-to-find-the-us-news-best-colleges Compared to the blue dots …