US news college rankings: Harvard University tops

US news college rankings: Harvard University tops. The latest The 2011 U.S. News & World Report college rankings and updated reports on college rankings.

The 2011 U.S. News & World Report college rankings came with good rewsults for universities in the D.C. region. Harvard rank 1, Princeton rank 2 and Yale rank 3, same as last year. Columbia University has displaced MIT as the fourth-ranked national university. This year’s top 10: Stanford, Penn, Cal Tech, Dartmouth, Duke and the University of Chicago. Of that group, only Dartmouth missed the top 10 a year ago.American University captures the 79 spot, up five places from last year’s 84th rank.

It is the last local institution ranked in the top 100. U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published monthly in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories. It is particularly well known for its ranking system and annual reports on American colleges, graduate schools and hospitals.