<p>Anyone have them? Starting from like 1999 or something would be preferable.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>would love to see these, also with major universities</p>
<p>The main site is down, so this is a cached version. I don’t know how to access the cached liberal arts version.</p>
<p>[U.S</a>. News Rankings Through the Years](<a href=“http://web.archive.org/web/20070908142457/http://chronicle.com/stats/usnews/]U.S”>U.S. News Rankings Through the Years)</p>
<p>there have been attempts to assemble such lists in the past but, CC views them as an infraction of the nocopyrighted material rule.</p>
<p>1996 USNWR Liberal Arts
1st Tier</p>
<ol>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Bowdoin</li>
<li>Haverford</li>
<li>Wellesly</li>
<li>Middlebury</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Bryn Marr</li>
<li>Smith</li>
<li>Carleton</li>
<li>Wesleyan</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>Grinnell</li>
<li>Washington & Lee</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>Bates</li>
<li>Colby</li>
<li>Mt Holyoke</li>
<li>Davidson</li>
<li>Oberlin</li>
<li>Hamilton</li>
<li>Trinity</li>
<li>Conn College</li>
<li>Holy Cross</li>
<li>Sewanee</li>
<li>Colorado Col</li>
<li>Franklin & Marshal</li>
<li>Bucknell</li>
<li>Union</li>
<li>Barnard</li>
<li>Lafayette</li>
<li>Macalester</li>
<li>Sarah Lawrence</li>
<li>Kenyon</li>
<li>Scripps</li>
<li>Wabash</li>
<li>Occidental</li>
<li>Dickinson</li>
</ol>
<p>On first glance, looks like Harvey Mudd wasn’t listsed as a LAC in 1995 (not on any other LAC ‘tier’ either) and the USNA & USMA are not on the LAC list either…they were added to the LACs a few years ago.</p>
<p>For grins…out of this top 40 list…</p>
<ul>
<li>most expensive: Williams ($23,715)</li>
<li>cheapest: Holy Cross ($13,011) </li>
<li>highest freshmen in top 10% of HS class: Swarthmore 87%</li>
<li>Lowest admit rate: Amherst 20%<br></li>
<li>Highest yield: Davidson 45%</li>
<li>highest SATs (pre-recentering): Swarthmore 1250-1440; Williams 1240-1450</li>
</ul>
<p>[Harvey Mudd, listed in back-of-magazine directory, reported 95% freshmen in top 10% of HS class, and SATs of 1320-1460.]</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>UNSWR 1996 LAC Rankings(and number of places, + or - , that school has moved in latest rankings since 1996)</p>
<p>1996 USNWR Liberal Arts
1st Tier</p>
<ol>
<li>Amherst -1</li>
<li>Swarthmore -1</li>
<li>Williams +1</li>
<li>Bowdoin -2</li>
<li>Haverford -5</li>
<li>Wellesly +1</li>
<li>Middlebury +3</li>
<li>Pomona +2</li>
<li>Bryn Marr -16</li>
<li>Smith -8</li>
<li>Carleton +3</li>
<li>Wesleyan -1</li>
<li>Vassar -2</li>
<li>Grinnell +0</li>
<li>Washington & Lee -1</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna +5</li>
<li>Colgate -2</li>
<li>Bates -7</li>
<li>Colby -3</li>
<li>Mt Holyoke -6</li>
<li>Davidson +13</li>
<li>Oberlin +0</li>
<li>Hamilton +2</li>
<li>Trinity -13</li>
<li>Conn College -17</li>
<li>Holy Cross -10</li>
<li>Sewanee -9</li>
<li>Colorado Col +4</li>
<li>Franklin & Marshal -14</li>
<li>Bucknell +0</li>
<li>Union -12</li>
<li>Barnard +2</li>
<li>Lafayette -2</li>
<li>Macalester +5</li>
<li>Sarah Lawrence -21</li>
<li>Kenyon +3</li>
<li>Scripps +12</li>
<li>Wabash -16</li>
<li>Occidental +6</li>
<li>Dickinson -6</li>
</ol>
<p>USNWR 1996-2009 LAC Rankings Biggest Movements</p>
<p>Up
Davidson +13
Scripps +12
Occidental +6
McCalester +5
Claremont McKenna +5</p>
<p>Down
Sarah Lawrence -21
Conn College -17
Wabash -16
Bryn Marr -16
Franklin & Marshall -14</p>
<p>I once went to google archives and accessed the rankings for the first few years. Forget how to do that now, but it really wasn’t all that informative. I think during the nineties, the rankings became much more important and informational. At one point you could access all the info online without even paying, but of course that all changed. Also a lot of financial data was published more openly, now you have to make the payment. As far as lacs go I think the major trends have been the rankings decline for all female colleges and the obvious correlation with ranking and endowment size.</p>
<p>USNWR began using the 5.0 PA scoring system in 1998 and the 1998 methodology is mostly in place today with only minor changes. Below is how the most highly ranked nationally universities compare in 1998 and 2010. </p>
<p>2010 , 1998 , National University</p>
<p>1 , 1 , Harvard
1 , 1 , Princeton
3 , 1 , Yale
4 , 4 , Stanford
4 , 6 , MIT
4 , 9 , Caltech
4 , 7 , U Penn
8 , 9 , Columbia
8 , 14 , U Chicago
10 , 4 , Duke
11 , 7 , Dartmouth
12 , 9 , Northwestern
12 , 17 , Wash U
15 , 14 , Cornell
15 , 14 , Johns Hopkins
16 , 9 , Brown
17 , 17 , Rice
17 , 9 , Emory
17 , 19 , Vanderbilt
20 , 19 , Notre Dame
21 , 23 , UC Berkeley
22 , 23 , Carnegie Mellon
23 , 21 , Georgetown
24 , 21 , U Virginia
24 , 28 , UCLA
26 , na , USC
27 , 23 , U Michigan
28 , 27 , U North Carolina
28 , 23 , Tufts
28 , na , Wake Forest</p>