USNWR Historical Rankings

College Search & Selection
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<p>There used to be a site which listed the historical rankings going back to at least 1991:</p>

<p><a href="http://thecenter.ufl.edu/usnews.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://thecenter.ufl.edu/usnews.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This link no longer works. Does anyone know of a site which lists the historical rankings?</p>

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<p>1983-2007:</p>

<p>[U.S&lt;/a&gt;. 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>

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<p>thanks. web archive rocks.</p>

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<p>The link doesn’t work anymore…Is there another way to access that info?</p>

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<p>^ The link I provided still works–I just tried it.</p>

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<p>Hmmm…It isn’t working for me…Do you have any idea why that might be?</p>

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<p>Nope. But here it is again, if it helps:</p>

<p><a href=“http://web.archive.org/web/20070908142457/http://chronicle.com/stats/usnews/[/url]”>http://web.archive.org/web/20070908142457/http://chronicle.com/stats/usnews/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^It takes a bit to load. Just give it a second</p>

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<p>It just takes me to a page that says “not in archive”…Thanks for the help though.</p>

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<p>Whoop…Got it! A backslash makes all the difference.</p>

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<p>I love the beat down the publics took after the 1988 rankings. The last year that Illinois outranked Caltech was a wonderful time to be alive.</p>

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<p>This is a great link for national universities, but it doesn’t seem to work for liberal arts colleges. Has anyone been able to access historical rankings for LACs?</p>

<p><a href=“http://thecenter.ufl.edu/usnews.html[/url]”>http://thecenter.ufl.edu/usnews.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Its irrelevant. Why do you care? In fact all rankings are irrelevant.</p>

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<p>I, thereby propose that 5% ‘alumni given rate’ category be replaced with ‘research expenditure spending’ on USNWR Best College Ranking. After all, these days, a great portion of undergrads are involved in research as a means for better job qualification, graduate and professional school admission.</p>

<p>The very next day this happens, UCB will merge with UCSF, and Michigan should return to #8 overall ranking! :)</p>

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<p>sovereigndebt, you’re absolutely correct, but arguing that on this board is akin to peeing into the wind.</p>

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<p>Sparkeye7 wrote

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<p>And, Wesleyan would return to its top three LAC position. <a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/sciences/sciencefacts.html[/url]”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/sciences/sciencefacts.html&lt;/a&gt; :)</p>

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<p>USNWR Ranking In 1983:

  1. Stanford
  2. Harvard
  3. Yale
  4. Princeton
  5. Berkeley
  6. Chicago
  7. Michigan
  8. Cornell/Illinois
  9. MIT/Dartmouth
  10. Caltech
  11. Carnegie Mellon/Wisconsin</p>

<p>2011 USNWR Peer Assessment (same methodology as '83 ranking):

  1. Harvard/MIT/Stanford/Princeton
  2. Yale
  3. Berkeley
  4. Caltech/Columbia/Cornell/Johns Hopkins/Chicago
  5. Michigan/Penn
  6. Brown/Duke/Northwestern
  7. Dartmouth/Virginia
  8. Carnegie Mellon/UCLA/North Carolina</p>

<p>Not much has changed…top schools are still at the top, some additions, some replacements (UCLA and UNC for UIUC and Wisky).</p>

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<p>lol at how you managed to put berkeley at number 6…</p>

<p>Yeah I would say the list goes more like this:</p>

<ol>
<li>HYPSMC (no reason for MIT to be there and not CalTech)</li>
<li>Brown/Columbia</li>
<li>Duke/Dartmouth/Northwestern
11.Cornell/Chicago</li>
<li>Berkeley, etc…</li>
</ol>

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<p>^^^Actually UCBChemEGrad is spot on. His rankings list is based off the PA scoring which hasn’t changed much over the years.</p>

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<p>

Obviously you didn’t read the title of the list before commenting. I didn’t “manage to put Berkeley at number 6”, collective opinion of ~2,000 academics put Berkeley at #6.</p>