U.S. News best colleges

Where can you get the best education? Which schools offer the best bang for your buck? Who are the up and comers, and where can an average student fit in best?

U.S. News and World Report is out with its annual listing of “America’s Best Colleges,” a ranking sure to thrill and infuriate teachers and administrators all around the country. If you are making plans yourself, or scoping out where your offspring might best spend those all-important four (or more) years, its a good place to start.

Here are the Top 25 National Universities, acccording to U.S. News:

1. Harvard

2. Princeton

3. Yale

T4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

T4. Stanford

T6. California Institute of Technology

T6. University of Pennsylvania

T8. Columbia

T8. Duke

T8. University of Chicago

11. Dartmouth

T12. Northwestern

T12. Washington University in St. Louis

14. Cornell

15. Johns Hopkins University

16. Brown

17. Rice

T18. Emory

T18. Notre Dame

T18. Vanderbilt

21. University of California - Berkeley

22. Carnegie Mellon

T23. Georgetown

T23. Virginia

25. UCLA

Too learn more about these, and to see other top schools in different categories, visit U.S. News & World Report.

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