2012 U.S. News College Rankings

U.S. News & World Report today released its 2012 College Rankings. Here are the Top 25 National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges (along with their 2009-2011 rankings):

2012 Rank	National Universities	2011 Rank	2010 Rank	2009 Rank
1	Harvard	1	1	1
1	Princeton	2	1	2
3	Yale	3	3	3
4	Columbia	4	8	8
5	Penn	5	4	6
5	Stanford	5	4	4
5	Cal-Tech	7	4	6
5	MIT	7	4	4
5	Chicago	9	8	8
10	Duke	9	10	8
11	Dartmouth	9	11	11
12	Northwestern	12	12	12
13	Johns Hopkins	13	14	15
14	Washington (St. Louis)	13	12	12
15	Cornell	15	15	14
15	Brown	15	16	16
17	Rice	17	17	17
17	Vanderbilt	17	17	18
19	Notre Dame	19	20	18
20	Emory	20	17	18
21	UC-Berkeley	22	21	21
22	Georgetown	21	23	23
23	Carnegie-Mellon	23	22	22
23	USC	23	26	27
25	UCLA	25	24	25
25	Virginia	25	24	23
25	Wake Forest	25	28	28

 

2012 Rank	Liberal Arts Colleges	2011 Rank	2010 Rank	2009 Rank
1	Williams	1	1	1
2	Amherst	2	2	1
3	Swarthmore	3	3	3
4	Pomona	6	6	6
5	Middlebury	4	4	5
6	Bowdoin	6	6	6
6	Wellesley	4	4	4
6	Carleton	8	8	8
9	Claremont-McKenna	11	11	11
10	Haverford	9	10	10
11	Davidson	8	8	9
12	Washington & Lee	14	14	17
12	Wesleyan	12	13	13
14	Vassar	12	11	11
14	U.S. Military Academy	16	14	14
14	U.S. Naval Academy	16	19	22
17	Hamilton	18	21	20
18	Harvey Mudd	18	14	14
19	Grinnell	18	14	14
19	Smith	14	18	18
21	Bates	21	25	25
21	Colgate	21	19	18
21	Colby College	23	22	24
24	Oberlin	23	22	20
25	Bryn Mawr	28	25	23