2011 U.S. News College Rankings

At 12:01 this morning, U.S. News & World Report released its 2011 College Rankings. Here are the Top 25 National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges (along with their 2008-2010 rankings):

2011 Rank	National Universities	2010 Rank	2009 Rank	2008 Rank
1	Harvard	1	1	2
2	Princeton	1	2	1
3	Yale	3	3	3
4	Columbia	8	8	9
5	Penn	4	6	5
5	Stanford	4	4	4
7	Cal-Tech	4	6	6
7	MIT	4	4	7
9	Chicago	8	8	9
9	Dartmouth	11	11	11
9	Duke	10	8	8
12	Northwestern	12	12	14
13	Washington (St. Louis)	12	12	12
13	Johns Hopkins	14	15	14
15	Cornell	15	14	12
15	Brown	16	16	14
17	Rice	17	17	17
17	Vanderbilt	17	18	19
19	Notre Dame	20	18	19
20	Emory	17	18	17
21	Georgetown	23	23	23
22	UC-Berkeley	21	21	21
23	Carnegie-Mellon	22	22	22
23	USC	26	27	27
25	UCLA	24	25	25
25	Virginia	24	23	23
25	Wake Forest	28	28	30

2011 Rank	Liberal Arts Colleges	2010 Rank	2009 Rank	2008 Rank
1	Williams	1	1	1
2	Amherst	2	1	2
3	Swarthmore	3	3	3
4	Middlebury	4	5	5
4	Wellesley	4	4	4
6	Bowdoin	6	6	7
6	Pomona	6	6	7
8	Carleton	8	8	5
9	Davidson	8	9	9
9	Haverford	10	10	10
11	Claremont-McKenna	11	11	11
12	Vassar	11	11	11
12	Wesleyan	13	13	11
14	Smith	18	18	17
14	Washington & Lee	14	17	15
16	U.S. Military Academy	14	14	22
16	U.S. Naval Academy	19	22	20
18	Grinnell	14	14	11
18	Hamilton	21	20	17
18	Harvey Mudd	14	14	15
21	Bates	25	25	24
21	Colgate	19	18	17
23	Colby College	22	24	22
23	Oberlin	22	20	20
23	Scripps	25	27	28