U.S. News & World Report released their 2019 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.

Social mobility indicators were added this year, while the acceptance rate was eliminated as a factor and others like expert opinions and test scores were reduced in weighting.

Princeton retains sole possession 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 (2019 vs 2018)

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• National Universities
• Liberal Arts Colleges

• Institution	Rank (2019)	Rank (2018)	Change
  Princeton	1	1
  Harvard	2	2
  Columbia	3	5	2
  MIT	3	5	2
  University of Chicago	3	3
  Yale	3	3
  Stanford	7	5	2
  Duke	8	9	1
  University of Pennsylvania	8	8
  Johns Hopkins	10	11	1
  Northwestern	10	11	1
  Caltech	12	10	2
  Dartmouth	12	11	1
  Brown	14	14
  Vanderbilt	14	14
  Cornell	16	14	2
  Rice	16	14	2
  Notre Dame	18	18
  UCLA	19	21	2
  Washington University in St. Louis	19	18	1
  Emory	21	21
  Georgetown	22	20	2
  UC Berkeley	22	21	1
  USC	22	21	1
  Carnegie Mellon	25	25
  University of Virginia	25	25
  Tufts	27	29	2
  University of Michigan	27	28	1
  Wake Forest	27	27
  NYU	30	30
  UC Santa Barbara	30	37	7
  UNC Chapel Hill	30	30
  UC Irvine	33	42	9
  University of Rochester	33	34	1
  Brandeis	35	34	1
  Georgia Tech	35	34	1
  University of Florida	35	42	7
  Boston College	38	32	6
  UC Davis	38	46	8
  William & Mary	38	32	6
  UC San Diego	41	42	1
  Boston University	42	37	5
  Case Western	42	37	5
  Northeastern University	44	40	4
  Tulane	44	40	4
  Pepperdine	46	46
  University of Georgia	46	56	10
  University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign	46	44	2
  RPI	49	42	7
  University of Wisconsin - Madison	49	46	3
  UT Austin	49	56	7
  Villanova	49	46	3

• Institution	Rank (2019)	Rank (2018)	Change
  Williams	1	1
  Amherst	2	2
  Bowdoin	3	6	2
  Swarthmore	3	4
  Wellesley	3	3
  Middlebury	6	4	1
  Pomona	6	7	1
  Carleton	8	7	3
  Claremont McKenna	8	9	1
  Davidson	10	9
  Washington and Lee	10	11	1
  Colby	12	12	6
  Colgate	12	12	4
  Harvey Mudd	12	21	6
  Vassar	12	12	1
  West Point	12	19	6
  Smith	13	12	2
  Grinnell	18	19	7
  Hamilton	18	12	2
  Haverford	18	12	7
  Naval Academy	21	12	1
  Wesleyan	21	21	3
  Bates	23	27	1
  Colorado College	23	24	4
  University of Richmond	23	27	2
  Air Force Academy	26	32	4
  Barnard	26	27	1
  Kenyon	26	27	4
  Macalester	26	24	1
  Oberlin	26	24	4
  Scripps	26	23	4
  Bryn Mawr	32	31	5
  Bucknell	33	32	3
  Holy Cross	33	32	2
  Pitzer	33	32	8
  Lafayette	36	36
  Mount Holyoke	36	36	6
  Union College	36	38	3
  Franklin & Marshall	39	44	3
  Soka University of America	39		17
  Occidental	41	44	2
  Sewanee	41	47	8
  Skidmore	41	38
  Whitman College	41	41	2
  Trinity College	44	38	2
  Centre College	46	41
  Connecticut College	46	50
  Denison	46		3
  Gettysburg	46		3
  Thomas Aquinas	46		3