2018 U.S. News College Rankings

U.S. News & World Report today released its 2018 College Rankings. Here are the Top 25 National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges (along with their 2015-2017 rankings):

2018 Rank	National Universities	2017 Rank	2016 Rank	2015 Rank
1	Princeton	1	1	1
2	Harvard	2	2	2
3	Chicago	3	3	4
3	Yale	3	3	3
5	Columbia	5	4	4
5	MIT	7	7	7
5	Stanford	5	4	4
8	Penn	8	9	9
9	Duke	8	8	8
10	Cal-Tech	12	10	10
11	Dartmouth	11	12	11
11	Johns Hopkins	10	10	12
11	Northwestern	12	12	13
14	Brown	14	14	16
14	Cornell	15	15	15
14	Rice	15	18	19
14	Vanderbilt	15	16	17
18	Notre Dame	15	18	18
18	Washington (St. Louis)	19	15	15
20	Georgetown	20	21	21
21	Emory	20	21	21
21	UC-Berkeley	20	20	20
21	UCLA	24	23	23
21	USC	23	22	25
25	Carnegie Mellon	24	23	25
25	Virginia	24	26	23

Pepperdine is ranked #46 (tied with Lehigh, Miami, UC-Davis, Villanova, and Wisconsin).

2018 Rank	Liberal Arts Colleges	2017 Rank	2016 Rank	2015 Rank
1	Williams	1	1	1
2	Amherst	2	2	2
3	Bowdoin	6	5	4
3	Swarthmore	4	3	3
3	Wellesley	3	4	4
6	Middlebury	4	4	7
6	Pomona	7	4	5
8	Carleton	7	8	8
8	Claremont McKenna	9	9	8
10	Davidson	9	9	11
10	Washington & Lee	11	14	14
12	Colby	12	19	15
12	Colgate	12	19	22
12	Harvey Mudd	12	14	15
12	Smith	12	12	8
12	U.S.Military Academy	19	22	24
12	Vassar	12	12	11
18	Grinnell	19	19	19
18	Hamilton	12	14	15
18	Haverford	12	12	8
21	U.S. NavalAcademy	12	9	13
21	Wesleyan	21	14	16
23	Bates		25	19
23	Colorado	24	25
23	Richmond