U.S. News & World Report released their 2018 college rankings earlier today.  Over 1,800 schools were covered nationwide and evaluated on multiple measures of academic excellence and outcomes to produce the final rankings.

Princeton retains sole posession of the top spot for National Universities, and Williams College tops the list of Liberal Arts Colleges.  

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U.S. News and World Report Ranking Changes (2018 vs 2017)

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• National Universities
• Liberal Arts Colleges

• Institution	Rank (2018)	Rank (2017)	Change
  Princeton	1	1
  Harvard	2	2
  University of Chicago	3	4	1
  Yale	3	3
  Columbia	5	5
  MIT	5	7	2
  Stanford	5	5
  University of Pennsylvania	8	8
  Duke	9	8	1
  Caltech	10	12	2
  Dartmouth	11	11
  Johns Hopkins	11	10	1
  Northwestern	11	12	1
  Brown	14	14
  Cornell	14	15	1
  Rice	14	15	1
  Vanderbilt	14	15	1
  Notre Dame	18	15	3
  Washington University in St. Louis	18	19	1
  Georgetown	20	20
  Emory	21	20	1
  UC Berkeley	21	20	1
  UCLA	21	24	3
  USC	21	23	2
  Carnegie Mellon	25	24	1
  University of Virginia	25	24	1
  Wake Forest	27	27
  University of Michigan	28	27	1
  Tufts	29	27	2
  NYU	30	36	6
  UNC Chapel Hill	30	30
  Boston College	32	31	1
  William & Mary	32	32
  Brandeis	34	34
  Georgia Tech	34	34
  University of Rochester	34	32	2
  Boston University	37	39	2
  Case Western	37	37
  UC Santa Barbara	37	37
  Northeastern University	40	39	1
  Tulane	40	39	1
  RPI	42	39	3
  UC Irvine	42	39	3
  UC San Diego	42	44	2
  University of Florida	42	50	8
  Lehigh	46	44	2
  Pepperdine	46	50	4
  UC Davis	46	44	2
  University of Miami	46	44	2
  University of Wisconsin - Madison	46	44	2
  Villanova	46	50	4

• Institution	Rank (2017)	Rank (2016)	Change
  Williams	1	1
  Amherst	2	2
  Bowdoin	3	6	3
  Swarthmore	3	4	1
  Wellesley	3	3
  Middlebury	6	4	2
  Pomona	6	7	1
  Carleton	8	7	1
  Claremont McKenna	8	9	1
  Davidson	10	9	1
  Washington and Lee	10	11	1
  Colby	12	12
  Colgate	12	12
  Harvey Mudd	12	21	9
  Vassar	12	12
  West Point	12	19	7
  Smith	13	12	1
  Grinnell	18	19	1
  Hamilton	18	12	6
  Haverford	18	12	6
  Naval Academy	21	12	9
  Wesleyan	21	21
  Bates	23	27	4
  Colorado College	23	24	1
  University of Richmond	23	27	4
  Air Force Academy	26	32	6
  Barnard	26	27	1
  Kenyon	26	27	1
  Macalester	26	24	2
  Oberlin	26	24	2
  Scripps	26	23	3
  Bryn Mawr	32	31	1
  Bucknell	33	32	1
  Holy Cross	33	32	1
  Pitzer	33	32	1
  Lafayette	36	36
  Mount Holyoke	36	36
  Union College	36	38	2
  Franklin & Marshall	39	44	5
  Soka University of America	39	41	2
  Occidental	41	44	3
  Sewanee	41	47	6
  Skidmore	41	38	3
  Whitman College	41	41
  Trinity College	44	38	6
  Bard	46	49	3
  Centre College	46	41	5
  Connecticut College	46	50	4
  Denison	46	51	5
  Gettysburg	46	51	5