2015 U.S. News College Rankings

U.S. News & World Report today released its 2015 College Rankings. Here are the Top 25 National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges (along with their 2012-2014 rankings): 

2015 Rank	National Universities	2014 Rank	2013 Rank	2012 Rank
1	Princeton	1	1	1
2	Harvard	2	1	1
3	Yale	3	3	3
4	Columbia	4	4	4
4	Stanford	5	6	5
4	Chicago	5	4	9
7	MIT	7	6	5
8	Duke	7	8	10
8	Penn	7	8	5
10	Cal-Tech	10	10	10
11	Dartmouth	10	10	11
12	Johns Hopkins	12	13	13
13	Northwestern	12	12	12
14	Washington (St. Louis)	14	14	14
15	Cornell	16	15	15
16	Brown	14	15	15
16	Vanderbilt	17	17	17
18	Notre Dame	18	17	19
19	Rice	18	17	17
20	UC-Berkeley	20	21	21
21	Emory	20	20	20
21	Georgetown	20	21	22
23	UCLA	23	24	25
23	Virginia	23	24	25
25	Carnegie Mellon	23	23	23
25	USC	23	24	23
27	Wake Forest	23	27	25

2015 Rank	Liberal Arts Colleges	2014 Rank	2013 Rank	2012 Rank
1	Williams	1	1	1
2	Amherst	2	2	2
3	Swarthmore	3	3	3
4	Wellesley	7	6	6
5	Pomona	4	4	4
5	Bowdoin	4	6	6
7	Middlebury	4	4	5
8	Carleton	7	8	6
8	Haverford	9	9	10
8	Clermont-McKenna	9	10	9
11	Davidson	9	12	11
11	Vassar	13	10	14
13	U.S. Naval Academy	12	14	14
14	Washington & Lee	14	14	12
15	Hamilton	14	16	17
15	Harvey Mudd	16	12	18
15	Colby	22	18	21
15	Wesleyan	22	22	21
19	Bates	17	17	12
19	Grinnell	17	22	19
19	Smith	20	18	19
22	Colgate	20	18	21
23	Oberlin	25		24
24	Macalester	24	24
24	Scripps	25	24
24	U.S. Military Academy	17	18	14

Update:  Washington Post, U.S. News College Rankings Trends, 2010-2015:

These tables show the top 150 drawn from each of two U.S. News lists of national universities and national liberal arts colleges.