Located at the bottom of this webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/andyreiter/data
From the link, “Since 1984, the magazine U.S. News and World Report has been ranking US universities and colleges. While I do not in anyway endorse the specific methodology used to construct these rankings, I know that many academic institutions and scholars use these rankings in their research and institutional assessment. I was in turn frustrated that historical rankings–specifically for liberal arts colleges–were not available anywhere online. The spreadsheet below contains all of the rankings from 1985-present for liberal arts colleges. I only included those institutions specifically ranked (not simply allocated to “tiers” or “quartiles”). The data were compiled from the actual articles releasing the data each year (any errors in entry are my own). The second tab of the spreadsheet includes specific notes on the rankings for each year.”
May the never ending arguments about which elite school is the most elite…BEGIN!