U.S. News National University Rankings for 2017

U.S. News National University Rankings for 2017

We present the top 29 National Universities in the U.S. News and World report rankings. We only list facts that are available for free. We also add the enrollments, showing how most peak out at about 8,000 undergraduate students. That means that the entering class is less than 2,000 students. Applicants should not feel badly if they do not make it into these schools.

The enrollments at UC Berkeley and UCLA each match that of about four or five of these private colleges. Of course our 10 campus system has to serve the University students for California’s population of 37 million, the largest US state. The difference seen by students is that the University of California generally has a student to teacher ratio of 19:1, while private Universities can have a 7:1 ratio.

Ties in rankings are reported as repeated ranking numbers.

1 Princeton 5,402
2 Harvard 6,699
3 U. Of Chicago 5,844
3 Yale U. 5,532
5 Columbia 6,102
5 Stanford 6,999
7 MIT 4,527
8 Duke 6,639
8 U. Pennsylvania 9,726
10 John Hopkins 6,524
11 Dartmouth 4,307
12 Cal Tech 1,001
12 Northwestern 8,314
14 Brown 6,652
15 Cornell 14,315
15 Rice 3,910
15 U. Norte Dame 8,462
15 Vanderbilt 6,883
19 Washington U. In St. Louis 7,504
20 Emory U. 6,867
20 Georgetown U. 7,562
20 UC Berkeley 27,496. Public
23 U. Southern California 18,810
24 UCLA 29,585. Public
24 U. Virginia Public
24 Carnegie Mellon U. 6,415
27 Tufts U. 5,290
27 U. Michigan – Ann Arbor 28,312. Public
27 Wake Forest U. 4,871

About Dennis SILVERMAN

I am a retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at U C Irvine. For two decades I have been active in learning about energy and the environment, and in reporting on those topics for a decade. For the last four years I have added science policy. Lately, I have been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic of our times.
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