U.S. News & World Report released their 2020 college rankings earlier today.  Over 1,400 schools were covered nationwide and evaluated on multiple measures of academic excellence and outcomes to produce the final rankings.

Approximately 13 percent of institutions were reclassified to changes in the underlying Carnegie classification system in 2018.

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 (2020 vs 2019)

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• National Universities
• Liberal Arts Colleges

• Institution	Rank (2020)	Rank (2019)	Change
  Princeton	1	1
  Harvard	2	2
  Columbia	3	3
  MIT	3	3
  Yale	3	3
  Stanford	6	7	1
  University of Chicago	6	3	3
  University of Pennsylvania	6	8	2
  Northwestern	9	10	1
  Duke	10	8	2
  Johns Hopkins	10	10
  Caltech	12	12
  Dartmouth	12	12
  Brown	14	14
  Notre Dame	15	18	3
  Vanderbilt	15	14	1
  Cornell	17	16	1
  Rice	17	16	1
  Washington University in St. Louis	19	19
  UCLA	20	19	1
  Emory	21	21
  UC Berkeley	22	22
  USC	22	22
  Georgetown	24	22	2
  Carnegie Mellon	25	25
  University of Michigan	25	27	2
  Wake Forest	27	27
  University of Virginia	28	25	3
  Georgia Tech	29	35	6
  NYU	29	30	1
  Tufts	29	27	2
  UNC Chapel Hill	29	30	1
  University of Rochester	29	33	4
  UC Santa Barbara	34	30	4
  University of Florida	34	35	1
  UC Irvine	36	33	3
  Boston College	37	38	1
  UC San Diego	37	41	4
  UC Davis	39	38	1
  Boston University	40	42	2
  Brandeis	40	35	5
  Case Western	40	42	2
  William & Mary	40	38	2
  Northeastern University	40	44	4
  Tulane	40	44	4
  University of Wisconsin - Madison	46	49	3
  Villanova	46	49	3
  University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign	48	46	2
  UT Austin	48	49	1
  Lehigh	50	53	3
  Pepperdine	50	46	4
  RPI	50	49	1
  University of Georgia	50	46	4

• Institution	Rank (2020)	Rank (2019)	Change
  Williams	1	1
  Amherst	2	2
  Swarthmore	3	3
  Wellesley	3	3
  Pomona	5	5
  Bowdoin	6	5	1
  Carleton	7	5	2
  Claremont McKenna	7	9	2
  Middlebury	7	5	2
  Washington and Lee	10	11	1
  Colby	11	18	7
  Haverford	11	11
  Smith	11	11
  Grinnell	14	11	3
  Hamilton	14	16	2
  Vassar	14	11	3
  Colgate	17	16	1
  Davidson	17	10	7
  Naval Academy	17	22	5
  Wesleyan	17	18	1
  Bates	21	22	1
  West Point	21	18	3
  Harvey Mudd	23	18	5
  University of Richmond	23	25	2
  Barnard	25	25
  Macalester	25	27	2
  Bryn Mawr	27	27
  Colorado College	27	27
  Holy Cross	27	35	8
  Kenyon	27	30	3
  Soka University of America	27	22	5
  Mount Holyoke	32	30	2
  Oberlin	33	30	3
  Scripps	33	30	3
  Bucknell	35	36	1
  Pitzer	35	41	6
  Thomas Aquinas	35	43	8
  Franklin & Marshall	38	36	2
  Air Force Academy	39	30	9
  Lafayette	39	36	3
  Occidental	39	39
  Skidmore	39	41	2
  Denison	43	43
  Sewanee	43	49	6
  Union College	45	39	6
  Berea College	46
  Connecticut College	46	46
  DePauw University	46
  Dickinson	46
  Furman	46
  Trinity College	46	46
  Whitman College	46	43	3