U.S. News & World Report released their 2024 college rankings yesterday.  Approximately 80% of the nearly 1,500 schools ranked returned their information, including 99 of the top 100 ranked national universities and 97 of the top 100 ranked national liberal arts colleges.

Significant changes were made to this year's methodology, including more emphasis on social mobility and outcomes and changes to weightings.

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 (2024 vs 2023)

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• National Universities
• Liberal Arts Colleges

• Institution	Rank (2024)	Rank (2023)	Change
  Princeton	1	1
  MIT	2	2
  Harvard	3	3
  Stanford	3	3
  Yale	5	3	2
  University of Pennsylvania	6	7	1
  Caltech	7	9	2
  Duke	7	10	3
  Brown	9	13	4
  Johns Hopkins	9	7	2
  Northwestern	9	10	1
  Columbia	12	18	6
  Cornell	12	17	5
  University of Chicago	12	6	6
  UC Berkeley	15	20	5
  UCLA	15	20	5
  Rice	17	15	2
  Dartmouth	18	12	6
  Vanderbilt	18	13	5
  Notre Dame	20	18	2
  University of Michigan	21	25	4
  Georgetown	22	22
  UNC Chapel Hill	22	29	7
  Carnegie Mellon	24	22	2
  Emory	24	22	2
  University of Virginia	24	25	1
  Washington University in St. Louis	24	15	9
  UC San Diego	27	34	7
  UC Davis	28	38	10
  University of Florida	28	29	1
  USC	28	25	3
  UT Austin	32	38	6
  Georgia Tech	33	44	11
  UC Irvine	33	34	1
  NYU	35	25	10
  UC Santa Barbara	35	32	3
  University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign	35	41	6
  University of Wisconsin - Madison	35	38	3
  Boston College	39	36	3
  Rutgers University - New Brunswick	40	55	15
  Tufts	40	32	8
  University of Washington	40	55	15
  Boston University	43	41	2
  Ohio State	43	49	6
  Purdue	43	51	8
  University of Maryland - College Park	46	55	9
  Lehigh	47	51	4
  Texas A&M	47	67	20
  University of Georgia	47	49	2
  University of Rochester	47	36	11
  Virginia Tech	47	62	15
  Wake Forest	47	29	18

• Institution	Rank (2024)	Rank (2023)	Change
  Williams	1	1
  Amherst	2	2
  Naval Academy	3	6	3
  Pomona	4	3	1
  Swarthmore	4	4
  Wellesley	4	5	1
  Air Force Academy	7	18	11
  West Point	8	9	1
  Bowdoin	9	6	3
  Carleton	9	6	3
  Barnard	11	18	7
  Claremont McKenna	11	9	2
  Grinnell	11	15	4
  Middlebury	11	11
  Wesleyan	11	18	7
  Davidson	16	15	1
  Hamilton	16	15	1
  Harvey Mudd	16	29	13
  Smith	16	13	3
  Vassar	16	13	3
  Colgate	21	18	3
  Haverford	21	18	3
  Washington and Lee	21	11	10
  Bates	24	25	1
  Colby	25	24	1
  University of Richmond	25	18	7
  Holy Cross	27	33	6
  Macalester	27	27
  Colorado College	29	27	2
  Berea College	30	26	4
  Bryn Mawr	30	31	1
  Bucknell	30	37	7
  Lafayette	30	39	9
  Mount Holyoke	34	36	2
  Franklin & Marshall	35	39	4
  Occidental	35	37	2
  Scripps	35	33	2
  Skidmore	38	39	1
  Denison	39	39
  Hillsdale	39	48	9
  Kenyon	39	31	8
  Pitzer	39	33	6
  Spelman College	39	51	12
  Trinity College	39	39
  Union College	45	48	3
  Connecticut College	46	55	9
  DePauw University	46	45	1
  Dickinson	46	51	5
  Furman	46	45	1
  Whitman College	46	48	2