| US News: #21 | 9/13/16 |
Announced late last night: a #20 ranking for Georgetown University in the annual US News guide to the top colleges nationwide, up from #21 in 2015.
Here are the 2016 totals, with the 2015 rankings in parentheses.
| 1. Princeton (1) |
| 2. Harvard (2) |
| 3. Chicago (4) |
| 3. Yale (3) |
| 5. Columbia (4) |
| 5. Stanford (4) |
| 7. MIT (7) |
| 8. Duke (8) |
| 8. Penn (8) |
| 12. Cal Tech (10) |
| 11. Dartmouth (12) |
| 10. J. Hopkins (10) |
| 12. Northwestern (14) |
| 19. Wash., MO (14) |
| 15. Cornell (15) |
| 14. Brown (16) |
| 15. Notre Dame (16) |
| 15. Vanderbilt (16) |
| 15. Rice (19) |
| 20. California (20) |
| 20. Georgetown (21) |
| 20. Emory (21) |
| 23. USC (23) |
| 24. Carnegie-yMellon (23) |
| 24. UCLA (23) |
Among Big East schools, Villanova was recalssified as a national school, debuting at #50. Marquette (#86, unchanged fom in 2015) is the only other university ranked nationally in the top 100. Other nationally classified schools include DePaul (#124, down from #123), Seton Hall (#118, up from #123), and St. John's (#164, down from #153). Providence, Creighton, Xavier, and Butler are all ranked in regional categories.