U.S. News Best College Rankings 2022 +/- vs. 2021

The 2022-2023 edition of the U.S. News undergraduate rankings was released today (Monday, September 12, 2022). Below are the changes (plus/minus) from last year.

As always when speaking about rankings, we want to disclaim that you should never make personal decisions based on any particular set of rankings, and particularly not based on year-to-year changes in rankings.

*Note: Columbia University was originally ranked #2 last year before it was removed from the rankings in July 2022 due to data inconsistencies. Though Columbia did not submit its data to U.S. News this year, they were ranked (landing at #18).

2022-2023 Top 50 U.S. News Best National Universities vs. Last Year's Rankings

#1 Princeton University (0)

#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (0)

#3 Harvard University (-1)

#3 Stanford University (+3)

#3 Yale University (+2)

#6 University of Chicago (0)

#7 Johns Hopkins University (+2)

#7 University of Pennsylvania (+1)

#9 California Institute of Technology (0)

#10 Duke University (-1)

#10 Northwestern University (-1)

#12 Dartmouth College (+1)

#13 Brown University (+1)

#13 Vanderbilt University (+1)

#15 Rice University (+2)

#15 Washington University in St. Louis (-1)

#17 Cornell University (0)

#18 Columbia University (*See above)

#18 University of Notre Dame (+1)

#20 University of California, Berkeley (+2)

#20 University of California, Los Angeles (0)

#22 Carnegie Mellon University (+3)

#22 Emory University (-1)

#22 Georgetown University (+1)

#25 New York University (+3)

#25 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (-2)

#25 University of Southern California (+2)

#25 University of Virginia (0)

#29 University of Florida (-1)

#29 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (-1)

#29 Wake Forest University (-1)

#32 Tufts University (-4)

#32 University of California, Santa Barbara (-4)

#34 University of California, Irvine (+2)

#34 University of California, San Diego (0)

#36 Boston College (0)

#36 University of Rochester (-2)

#38 University of California, Davis (0)

#38 University of Texas at Austin (0)

#38 University of Wisconsin--Madison (+4)

#41 Boston University (+1)

#41 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (+6)

#41 William & Mary (-3)

#44 Brandeis University (-2)

#44 Case Western Reserve University (-2)

#44 Georgia Institute of Technology (-6)

#44 Northeastern University (+5)

#44 Tulane University (-2)

#49 The Ohio State University (0)

#49 University of Georgia (-1)