U.S. News & World Report released their 2025 college rankings this morning.  Nearly 1,500 schools were ranked based on 17 factors, with the methodology mostly unchanged from the previous year.  

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 (2025 vs 2024)

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• National Universities
• Liberal Arts Colleges

• Institution	Rank (2025)	Rank (2024)	Change
  Princeton	1	1
  MIT	2	2
  Harvard	3	3
  Stanford	4	3	1
  Yale	5	5
  Caltech	6	7	1
  Duke	6	7	1
  Johns Hopkins	6	9	3
  Northwestern	6	9	3
  University of Pennsylvania	10	6	4
  Cornell	11	12	1
  University of Chicago	11	12	1
  Brown	13	9	4
  Columbia	13	12	1
  Dartmouth	15	18	3
  UCLA	15	15
  UC Berkeley	17	15	2
  Notre Dame	18	20	2
  Rice	18	17	1
  Vanderbilt	18	18
  Carnegie Mellon	21	24	3
  University of Michigan	21	21
  Washington University in St. Louis	21	24	3
  Emory	24	24
  Georgetown	24	22	2
  University of Virginia	24	24
  UNC Chapel Hill	27	22	5
  USC	27	28	1
  UC San Diego	29	27	2
  NYU	30	35	5
  University of Florida	30	28	2
  UT Austin	30	32	2
  Georgia Tech	33	33
  UC Davis	33	28	5
  UC Irvine	33	33
  University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign	33	35	2
  Boston College	37	39	2
  Tufts	37	40	3
  UC Santa Barbara	39	35	4
  University of Wisconsin - Madison	39	35	4
  Boston University	41	43	2
  Ohio State	41	43	2
  Rutgers University - New Brunswick	41	40	1
  University of Maryland - College Park	44	46	2
  University of Rochester	44	47	3
  Lehigh	46	47	1
  Purdue	46	43	3
  University of Georgia	46	47	1
  University of Washington	46	40	6
  Wake Forest	46	47	1

• Institution	Rank (2025)	Rank (2024)	Change
  Williams	1	1
  Amherst	2	2
  Swarthmore	3	4	1
  Naval Academy	4	3	1
  Bowdoin	5	9	4
  Pomona	5	4	1
  Wellesley	7	4	3
  Air Force Academy	8	7	1
  Carleton	8	9	1
  Claremont McKenna	8	11	3
  West Point	8	8
  Harvey Mudd	12	16	4
  Vassar	12	16	4
  Barnard	14	11	3
  Davidson	14	16	2
  Hamilton	14	16	2
  Smith	14	16	2
  Wesleyan	14	11	3
  Grinnell	19	11	8
  Middlebury	19	11	8
  Washington and Lee	19	21	2
  Colgate	22	21	1
  University of Richmond	22	25	3
  Haverford	24	21	3
  Colby	25	25
  Bates	26	24	2
  Macalester	26	27	1
  Holy Cross	28	27	1
  Bryn Mawr	29	30	1
  Colorado College	29	29
  Bucknell	31	30	1
  Franklin & Marshall	31	35	4
  Lafayette	31	30	1
  Mount Holyoke	34	34
  Occidental	34	35	1
  Denison	36	39	3
  Pitzer	36	39	3
  Skidmore	36	38	2
  Trinity College	36	39	3
  Berea College	40	30	10
  Soka University of America	40	56	16
  Spelman College	40	39	1
  Trinity University	40	59	19
  Union College	40	45	5
  Scripps	44	35	9
  Dickinson	45	46	1
  Furman	45	46	1
  Kenyon	45	39	6
  University of the South	45	51	6
  DePauw University	50	46	4
  Hillsdale	50	39	11
  St. Olaf College	50	51	1