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U.S. Best College Rankings For 2021 U.S. News & World Report released its 2021 Best Colleges rankings today, featuring rankings of more than 1,400 colleges and universities that grant baccalaureate degrees. It’s the 36th year for the rankings, a testament not only to its unusual longevity but also its outsized influence for students, families and the general public
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or the tenth straight year, Princeton tops the National University list, followed, also as in years past, by Harvard in second. Columbia was third, and MIT and Yale tied for fourth. Williams College heads up the list of National Liberal Arts Colleges, and UCLA once again claimed first place among Top Public Universities. Here are the five top-ranked schools in several of the major categories. BEST NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES (389 SCHOOLS) 1.Princeton University 2.Harvard University 3.Columbia University 4.Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University (tie) Of the top 20 national universities, 19 were private, not-forprofit institutions. UCLA was the only public school in the top
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20. All the schools ranked in the top 20 National Universities in 2021 were in the top 20 in 2020, albeit in a slightly different order. This ranking inertia has come to be expected, the product of both institutional continuity and - despite small, annual revisions - a largely repetitive rankings methodology. BEST NATIONAL LIBERAL ARTS (223 SCHOOLS) 1.Williams College 2.Amherst College 3.Swarthmore College 4.Pomona College and Wellesley College (tie) BEST NATIONAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES (209 SCHOOLS) 1.University of California, Los Angeles 2.University of California, Berkeley 3.University of Michigan 4.University of Virginia 5.University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
