Top 25 colleges and universities ranked academically by US News for 2022-23
Few places are able to claim excellence in both academics and athletics quite like the University of Notre Dame. Like many of the top-ranked schools, Notre Dame has fewer than 9,000 undergraduate students. The university is widely regarded as one of the very best nationally each and every year.
U.S. News & World Report ranks colleges and universities every year and recently came out with its list for 2022-23. Not surprisingly, Notre Dame found itself in the top 20 nationally. Which schools ranked around Notre Dame? And which ranked ahead?
Below is how the U.S. News & World Report ranked the top 25 colleges and universities.
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T-25. Virginia
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 17,299
Tuition: $56,837 out of state, $21,381 in-state
T-25. University of Southern California
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 20,790
Tuition: $64,726
T-25. University of Michigan
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 32,282
Tuition: $57,223 out of state, $17,786 in-state
T-25. New York University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 28,772
Tuition: $58,160
24. Georgetown
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 7,598
Tuition: $62,052
23. Emory University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 7,130
Tuition: $57,948
22. Carnegie Mellon University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 7,365
Tuition: $61,344
T-20. University of California, Los Angeles
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 32,119
Tuition: $44,830 out of state, $13,804 in-state
T-20. University of California, Berkeley
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 32,143
Tuition: $43,980 out of state, $14,226 in-state
T-18 University of Notre Dame
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 8,973
Tuition: $60,301
T-18. Columbia University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 8,148
Tuition: $65,524
17. Cornell University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 15,503
Tuition: $63,200
T-15. Washington University in St. Louis
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 8,034
Tuition: $60,590
T-15. Rice University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 4,247
Tuition: $54,960
14. Vanderbilt University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 7,111
Tuition: $60,348
13. Brown University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 7,349
Tuition: $65,146
12. Dartmouth University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 7,349
Tuition: $62,430
11. Northwestern University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 8,494
Tuition: $63,468
10. Duke University
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Fall ’21 Enrollment: 6,883
Tuition: $63,054
9. California Institute of Technology
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 987
Tuition: $60,864
T-7. Pennsylvania University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 9,962
Tuition: $63,452
T-7. Johns Hopkins University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 6,132
Tuition: $60,480
6. University of Chicago
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 7,526
Tuition: $62,940
5. Yale University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 6,536
Tuition: $62,250
4. Stanford University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 7,645
Tuition: $56,169
3. Harvard University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 7,153
Tuition: $57,261
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 4,638
Tuition: $57,986
1. Princeton University
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Fall 2021 Enrollment: 5,321
Tuition: $57,410
