Princeton dropped to second place after Harvard in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of America’s best colleges and universities, according to an Associated Press story posted around 4 p.m. on Aug. 16 at whiznews.com.
Princeton had been ranked as the top college in the United States for nine out of the last 10 years. Yale is third on this year’s list, followed by Columbia, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania.
The 27th annual U.S. News rankings, which are set to be released officially on Aug. 17, come less than a week after Forbes magazine released its third annual college rankings. Princeton, which was ranked first in Forbes’s inaugural rankings in 2008, took second place behind Williams this year, while Harvard took eighth.
several changes in its ranking methodologyColleges across the country, including Princeton, have often criticized the U.S. News survey, charging that no ranking can do justice to a school's individual characteristics. Several schools have refused to participate in the survey in recent years, though Princeton has not been among them.
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