US top national universities

US News has just released rankings of the top fifty national universities. The top ten comes not as a surprise because of the familiar names of these universities. The first ranking, as usual, goes to Harvard University. Harvard University was one of the oldest institutions in the U.S., founded in 1636, it now boasts of the most prestigious alumni all over the world.

Together with Harvard, Princeton University as member of the Ivy League ranks the first. The next rankings in the top ten belong to: Yale University (3rd), Columbia University (4th), California Institute of Technology (5th), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (5th), Stanford University (5th), University of Chicago (5th), University of Pennsylvania (5th) and Duke University (10th).

The rest of the rankings include:

#11 Dartmouth

#12 Northwestern

#13 Johns Hopkins

#14 Wash U in St Louis

#15 Brown

#15 Cornell

#17 Rice

#17 Vanderbilt

#19 Notre Dame

#20 Emory

#21 Berkeley

#22 Georgetown

#23 Carnegie Mellon

#23 USC

#25 U of Virginia

#25 UCLA

#25 Wake Forest

#28 Michigan

#29 Tufts

#29 UNC Chapel Hill

31. Boston College

31. Brandeis

33. College of William and Mary

33. NYU

35. U of Rochester

36. George Institute of Tech

37. UC San Diego

38. Case Western Reserve

38. Lehigh

38. UC Davis

38. U of Miami

42. UC Santa Barbara

42. U of Washington - Seattle

42. U of Wisconsin - Madison

45. Pen State

45. UIUC

45. U of Texas - Austin

45. Yeshiva

50. George Washington

50. Resellaer Polytechnic Institute

50. Tulane

Ohio University ranks the 124th among the national universities.