College Rankings from 10-15 Years Ago

<p>i dont have undergrad rankings from 10-15 years ago, but i DO have rankings from 2000 (my 8th grade english teacher gave us the usnwr rankings hoping we’d strive for one of those colleges as we turned toward high school haha)</p>

<p>2000 USNWR Best Colleges

  1. Cal Tech
  2. Harvard
  3. MIT
  4. Princeton, Yale
  5. Stanford
  6. Duke, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania
  7. Columbia
  8. Cornell, Dartmouth
  9. Chicago
  10. Brown, Northwestern, Rice
  11. Washington U.
  12. Emory
  13. Notre Dame
  14. UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt
  15. Virginia
  16. Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown
  17. UCLA, Michigan
  18. UNC
  19. Wake Forest
  20. William & Mary, Tufts
  21. Brandeis
  22. UCSD, Rochester
  23. Case Western, Lehigh, NYU, Illinois, Wisconsin
  24. Boston College
  25. Georgia Tech, Penn State
  26. UC Davis, USC
  27. Tulane, UCSB, Texas, Washington, Yeshiva
  28. UC Irvine, Florida</p>

<p>as you can see, there is some drastic changes like caltech’s fall from #1 and usc’s jump from 42 to 30</p>