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The 2024 (published 2023) U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings were released today—here are the top 50 national universities with plus/minuses, below.
U.S. News Best National University Rankings 2024 (with Plus/Minus vs. 2023)
(1) Princeton University (0)
(2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (0)
(3) Harvard University (0)
(3) Stanford University (0)
(5) Yale University (-2)
(6) University of Pennsylvania (+1)
(7) California Institute of Technology (+2)
(7) Duke University (+3)
(9) Brown University (+4)
(9) Johns Hopkins University (-2)
(9) Northwestern University (-1)
(12) Columbia University (+6)
(12) Cornell University (+5)
(12) University of Chicago (-6)
(15) University of California, Berkeley (+5)
(15) University of California, Los Angeles (+5)
(17) Rice University (-2)
(18) Dartmouth College (-6)
(18) Vanderbilt University (-5)
(20) University of Notre Dame (-2)
(21) University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (+4)
(22) Georgetown University (0)
(22) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (+7)
(24) Carnegie Mellon University (-2)
(24) Emory University (-2)
(24) University of Virginia (+1)
(24) Washington University in St. Louis (-9)
(28) University of California, Davis (+10)
(28) University of California, San Diego (+6)
(28) University of Florida (+1)
(28) University of Southern California (-3)
(32) University of Texas at Austin (+6)
(33) Georgia Institute of Technology (+11)
(33) University of California, Irvine (+1)
(35) New York University (-10)
(35) University of California, Santa Barbara (-3)
(35) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (+6)
(35) University of Wisconsin--Madison (+3)
(39) Boston College (-3)
(40) Rutgers University--New Brunswick (+15)
(40) Tufts University (-8)
(40) University of Washington (+15)
(43) Boston University (-2)
(43) The Ohio State University (+6)
(43) Purdue University (+8)
(46) University of Maryland, College Park (+9)
(47) Lehigh University (+4)
(47) Texas A&M University (+20)
(47) University of Georgia (+2)
(47) University of Rochester (-11)
(47) Virginia Tech (+15)
(47) Wake Forest University (-18)
