U.S. News & World Report released their 2023 college rankings earlier today.  1,500 schools were covered nationwide and evaluated on up to 17 measures of academic quality.

This year's methodology adjusts for the decline in SAT/ACT test takers, introduces a more comprehensive measure of faculty resources and reflects changes to Carenegie Classifications made in 2021.

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 (2023 vs 2022)

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• National Universities
• Liberal Arts Colleges

• Institution	Rank (2023)	Rank (2022)	Change
  Princeton	1	1
  MIT	2	2
  Harvard	3	2	1
  Stanford	3	6	3
  Yale	3	5	2
  University of Chicago	6	6
  Johns Hopkins	7	9	2
  University of Pennsylvania	7	8	1
  Caltech	9	9
  Duke	10	9	1
  Northwestern	10	9	1
  Dartmouth	12	13	1
  Brown	13	14	1
  Vanderbilt	13	14	1
  Rice	15	17	2
  Washington University in St. Louis	15	14	1
  Cornell	17	17
  Columbia	18	2	16
  Notre Dame	18	19	1
  UC Berkeley	20	22	2
  UCLA	20	20
  Carnegie Mellon	22	25	3
  Emory	22	21	1
  Georgetown	22	23	1
  NYU	25	28	3
  University of Michigan	25	23	2
  University of Virginia	25	25
  USC	25	27	2
  UNC Chapel Hill	29	28	1
  University of Florida	29	28	1
  Wake Forest	29	28	1
  Tufts	32	28	4
  UC Santa Barbara	32	28	4
  UC Irvine	34	36	2
  UC San Diego	34	34
  Boston College	36	36
  University of Rochester	36	34	2
  UC Davis	38	38
  University of Wisconsin - Madison	38	42	4
  UT Austin	38	38
  Boston University	41	42	1
  University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign	41	47	6
  William & Mary	41	38	3
  Brandeis	44	42	2
  Case Western	44	42	2
  Georgia Tech	44	38	6
  Northeastern University	44	49	5
  Tulane	44	42	2
  Ohio State	49	49
  University of Georgia	49	48	1

• Institution	Rank (2023)	Rank (2022)	Change
  Williams	1	1
  Amherst	2	2
  Pomona	3	4	1
  Swarthmore	4	3	1
  Wellesley	5	5
  Bowdoin	6	6
  Carleton	6	9	3
  Naval Academy	6	6
  Claremont McKenna	9	8	1
  West Point	9	11	2
  Middlebury	11	9	2
  Washington and Lee	11	11
  Smith	13	17	4
  Vassar	13	22	9
  Davidson	15	13	2
  Grinnell	15	13	2
  Hamilton	15	13	2
  Air Force Academy	18	22	4
  Barnard	18	17	1
  Colgate	18	17	1
  Haverford	18	16	2
  University of Richmond	18	22	4
  Wesleyan	18	17	1
  Colby	24	17	7
  Bates	25	25
  Berea College	26	30	4
  Colorado College	27	26	1
  Macalester	27	27
  Harvey Mudd	29	28	1
  Soka University of America	29	29
  Bryn Mawr	31	30	1
  Kenyon	31	30	1
  Holy Cross	33	35	2
  Pitzer	33	35	2
  Scripps	33	30	3
  Mount Holyoke	36	30	6
  Bucknell	37	38	1
  Occidental	37	42	5
  Denison	39	42	3
  Franklin & Marshall	39	42	3
  Lafayette	39	38	1
  Oberlin	39	37	2
  Skidmore	39	38	1
  Trinity College	39	46	7
  DePauw University	45	46	1
  Furman	45	46	1
  Thomas Aquinas	45	42	3
  Hillsdale	48	46	2
  Union College	48	50	2
  Whitman College	48	38	10