Carnegie Mellon University is among the top 25 National Universities in the 2013 Best Colleges rankings.
Updated 9/12/12: The 2013 Best Colleges rankings have been released; check out the full Best National Universities rankings online.
Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications, and then, if you’re lucky, choosing among the acceptance letters and financial aid awards to find that place you’ll call home for the next few years.
To steer you in the right direction, U.S. News surveys colleges and universities each year and ranks nearly 1,400 of them in different categories according to our methodology.
Here, we offer a sneak peek of the 2013 Best Colleges rankings.
These schools—listed alphabetically—are the top 25 schools in the National Universities category:
| School (state) |
|---|
| Brown University (RI) |
| California Institute of Technology |
| Carnegie Mellon University (PA) |
| Columbia University (NY) |
| Cornell University (NY) |
| Dartmouth College (NH) |
| Duke University (NC) |
| Emory University (GA) |
| Georgetown University (DC) |
| Harvard University (MA) |
| Johns Hopkins University (MD) |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Northwestern University (IL) |
| Princeton University (NJ) |
| Rice University (TX) |
| Stanford University (CA) |
| University of California—Berkeley |
| University of California—Los Angeles |
| University of Chicago |
| University of Notre Dame (IN) |
| University of Pennsylvania |
| University of Southern California |
| University of Virginia |
| Vanderbilt University (TN) |
| Washington University in St. Louis |
| Yale University (CT) |
(Note: due to ties, there are more than 25 schools listed here.)
The actual National Universities rankings of these and other schools will be available Sept. 12, 2012, on usnews.com.
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