Brown University was ranked 13th in U.S. News & World Report’s list of the nation’s best colleges. Brown and Cornell (ranked 13th) were the only members of the Ivy League that didn’t make the top 10 this year.
Harvard and Princeton universities tied for the top spot for the second year in a row, the magazine reported.
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Princeton has held or shared the top U.S. ranking for five years in a row. According to the magazine, 94 percent of last year’s freshmen at the New Jersey university ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class. The figure for Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard was 90 percent.
Schools are ranked according to peer assessment, how many freshmen return after their first year and graduate, faculty resources, graduation rate, financial resources and alumni support, the magazine said. Officials at Princeton said the survey results shouldn’t be taken as definitive about a school’s worth.
Yale University in New Haven, Conn., came in third for a second straight year, followed by the Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania, which moved up from its fifth place showing last year, the magazine said. Duke University in North Carolina, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, and California-based Stanford University tied for fifth place on the annual list.
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