For the third year in a row, Princeton University topped U.S. News and World Report's National Universities Rankings.
One of the most highly cited college rankings in the U.S., the Ivy League once again dominated the U.S. News list, occupying half of the top 10 and eight spots within the top 15. Other schools that filled out the ranking were elite non-Ivies like Stanford, Duke, MIT and CalTech.
Click HERE to see U.S. News' methodology for their National Universities Rankings, and HERE for the full list. Below is the top 10.
1. Princeton
Location: Princeton, N.J.
Acceptance rate: 7.4 percent
Enrolled: 43,450
2. Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Acceptance rate: 6 percent
Enrolled: 6,694
3. Yale University
Location: New Haven, Conn.
Acceptance rate: 6.3 percent
Enrolled: 5,477
4. Columbia University
Location: New York, N.Y.
Acceptance rate: 7 percent
Enrolled: 6,170
4. Stanford University
Location: Stanford, Calif.
Acceptance rate: 5.1 percent
Enrolled: 7,019
4. University of Chicago
Location: Chicago, Ill.
Acceptance rate: 8.8 percent
Enrolled: 5,681
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Acceptance rate: 7.9 percent
Enrolled: 4,512
8. Duke University
Location: Durham, N.C.
Acceptance rate: 11.4 percent
Enrolled: 6,626
9. University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Penn.
Acceptance rate: 10.4 percent
Enrolled: 9,746
10. California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
Location: Pasadena, Calif.
Acceptance rate: 8.8 percent
Enrolled: 983
10. Johns Hopkins University
Location: Baltimore, Md.
Acceptance rate: 15 percent
Enrolled: 6,469
