Princeton ranked top US university… again!
Top position, again. Princeton University took the No. 1 title as the top national university — for the ninth consecutive year — in an annual list compiled by U.S. News & World Report. The private New Jersey school wasn’t the only Ivy League institution to occupy a top slot on the list unveiled Monday — Harvard University came in second place. The Big Apple’s own Ivy, Columbia University, as well as Connecticut’s Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — which is not an Ivy but known for its selectivity — tied for third. Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. took the top spot among national liberal arts colleges for the 17th year in a row, followed by Amherst College, also in the Bay State. Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Wellesley College in Massachusetts tied for third. The University of California—Los Angeles occupies the No. 1 spot as the top public university, followed by the University of California–Berkeley and the University of Michi...