US News College Rankings 2025: Check List of Top Universities here on this page. US News and World Report released its scores for nearly 1,500 colleges and universities in the US for 2025. There are different groups for different types of schools, such as the best public schools, the best historically black colleges and universities, and the best workers on social mobility. US News says that when choosing a college, you should look at these rankings along with other details.
Today, US News and World Report released its annual list of the best schools and universities in the country. This list can help people who are thinking about going to college. The ranking looks at up to 17 academic quality indicators to rate almost 1,500 schools and universities. US News stopped publishing its print news magazine in 2010, but its annual college rankings still bring in millions of dollars for the company because universities pay license fees to have their school listed.
US News, on the other hand, says that its business relationships with schools do not change its ratings.
US News said that people who visit its website should “strongly” consider the rankings along with other information from US News and other sources, as well as their own personal interests and goals, when choosing where to apply to and attend college.
US News College Rankings 2025: Check List of Top Universities
Here are the top three colleges in each category
2025 Best National Universities
- Princeton University (NJ)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Harvard University (MA)
2025 Best National Liberal Arts Colleges
- Williams College (MA)
- Amherst College (MA)
- Swarthmore College (PA)
2025 Top Public Schools: National Universities
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2025 Top Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Spelman College
- Howard University
- Florida A&M University (tie)
3. Tuskegee University (tie)
2025 top performers on social mobility: National Universities
- Florida International University (FL) (tie)
- University of California, Riverside (tie)
- California State University, Long Beach (tie)
- University of California, Merced (tie)
2025 top performers on social mobility: National Liberal Arts Colleges
- Lake Forest College (IL) (tie)
- Spelman College (GA) (tie)
- Salem College (NC)
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US News College Rankings 2025: Top 25 schools
No. 1:Â Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
No. 2:Â Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
No. 3:Â Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
No. 4:Â Stanford University, Stanford, California
No. 5: Yale University—New Haven, Connecticut
No. 6—four-way tie: California Institute of Technology—Pasadena, California; Duke University—Durham, North Carolina; Johns Hopkins University—Boston, Maryland; Northwestern University—Evanston, Illinois
No. 10: University of Pennsylvania—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No. 11—two-way tie: Cornell University—Ithaca, New York; University of Chicago—Chicago, Illinois
No. 13 – two-way tie:Â Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Columbia University, New York, New York
No. 15 — two-way tie:Â Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
No. 17:Â University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, California
No. 18 – three-way tie:Â Rice University – Houston, Texas; University of Notre Dame – South Bend, Indiana; Vanderbilt University – Nashville, Tennessee
No. 21: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
No. 24:Â Emory University — Atlanta, Georgia; Georgetown University — Washington, D.C.; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Due to the tie, there was no university listed in the 25th spot. The next university that made the list was University of North Carolina Chapel Hill at No. 27.
