US News Top 25 for 1991-2008

kyledavid80
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:08:17 +0000

^^ Glad you’re noticing that. US News wants to make sure that the golden three (no, Stanford isn’t included, no matter how much people around here say it is) are the top, followed by a few other very elite ones (yes, Stanford, MIT, etc.). It also tries to make sure that no public breaks the top 20 – even putting Vanderbilt and Notre Dame ahead of schools like Berkeley and UVA.

Here’s an interesting list – I averaged all years that US News has ranked colleges (using Excel, mind you), and came out with this ranking:


Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Duke
Caltech
Dartmouth
Penn
Columbia
Chicago
Cornell
Brown
Northwestern
JHU
Rice
WUStL
Berkeley
Emory
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
UVA
Georgetown
Michigan
CMU
UNC
UCLA
Tufts
USC