U.S. News & World Report released their 2022 college rankings yesterday.  Over 1,400 schools were covered nationwide and evaluated on multiple measures of academic excellence and outcomes to produce the final rankings.

This year's methodology adjusts for the decline in SAT/ACT test takers and continues to include test-blind institutions.

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 (2022 vs 2021)

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• National Universities
• Liberal Arts Colleges

• Institution	Rank (2022)	Rank (2021)	Change
  Princeton	1	1
  Columbia	2	3	1
  Harvard	2	2
  MIT	2	4	2
  Yale	5	4	1
  Stanford	6	6
  University of Chicago	6	6
  University of Pennsylvania	8	8
  Caltech	9	9
  Duke	9	12	3
  Johns Hopkins	9	9
  Northwestern	9	9
  Dartmouth	13	13
  Brown	14	14
  Vanderbilt	14	14
  Washington University in St. Louis	14	16	2
  Cornell	17	18	1
  Rice	17	16	1
  Notre Dame	19	19
  UCLA	20	20
  Emory	21	21
  UC Berkeley	22	22
  Georgetown	23	23
  University of Michigan	23	24	1
  Carnegie Mellon	25	26	1
  University of Virginia	25	26	1
  USC	27	24	3
  NYU	28	30	2
  Tufts	28	30	2
  UC Santa Barbara	28	30	2
  UNC Chapel Hill	28	28
  University of Florida	28	30	2
  Wake Forest	28	28
  UC San Diego	34	35	1
  University of Rochester	34	34
  Boston College	36	35	1
  UC Irvine	36	35	1
  Georgia Tech	38	35	3
  UC Davis	38	39	1
  UT Austin	38	42	4
  William & Mary	38	39	1
  Boston University	42	42
  Brandeis	42	42
  Case Western	42	42
  Tulane	42	41	1
  University of Wisconsin - Madison	42	42
  University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign	47	47
  University of Georgia	48	47	1
  Lehigh	49	49
  Northeastern University	49	49
  Ohio State	49	49
  Pepperdine	49	49
  Purdue	49	53	4
  Villanova	49	53	4

• Institution	Rank (2022)	Rank (2021)	Change
  Williams	1	1
  Amherst	2	2
  Swarthmore	3	3
  Pomona	4	4
  Wellesley	5	4	1
  Bowdoin	6	6
  Naval Academy	6	6
  Claremont McKenna	8	6	2
  Carleton	9	9
  Middlebury	9	9
  Washington and Lee	11	9	2
  West Point	11	15	4
  Davidson	13	15	2
  Grinnell	13	13
  Hamilton	13	9	4
  Haverford	16	15	1
  Barnard	17	22	5
  Colby	17	15	2
  Colgate	17	20	3
  Smith	17	15	2
  Wesleyan	17	20	3
  Air Force Academy	22	28	6
  University of Richmond	22	22
  Vassar	22	13	9
  Bates	25	22	3
  Colorado College	26	25	1
  Macalester	27	27
  Harvey Mudd	28	25	3
  Soka University of America	29	28	1
  Berea College	30	33	3
  Bryn Mawr	30	28	2
  Kenyon	30	27	3
  Mount Holyoke	30	34	4
  Scripps	30	28	2
  Holy Cross	35	36	1
  Pitzer	35	36	1
  Oberlin	37	36	1
  Bucknell	38	34	4
  Lafayette	38	40	2
  Skidmore	38	36	2
  Whitman College	38	47	9
  Denison	42	44	2
  Franklin & Marshall	42	43	1
  Occidental	42	40	2
  Thomas Aquinas	42	40	2
  DePauw University	46	47	1
  Furman	46	52	6
  Furman	46	52	6
  Hillsdale	46	54	8
  Trinity College	46	44	2
  Connecticut College	50	51	1
  Dickinson	50	47	3
  Sewanee	50	47	3
  Union College	50	44	6