US News Top 25 for 1991-2008

superwizard
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:42:23 +0000

One thing that I noticed is that since 1993 (except for the 2000 ranking which was quite different) the top three schools are always: Harvard Yale and Princeton while Stanford and MIT are not too far behind (Stanford has never been lower than 6 MIT 7). Now I know I’m a bit biased but with all those fluctuations why hasn’t either university in these 15 years beat at least one of HYP? It seems to me that US News tweaks the rankings to make sure that that is the case.

Further evidence: Stanford was ranked #1 in '83,'85,'88 and #2 in '91 and #3 in '92. Has Stanford become less competitive? On the contrary…