Boston: Harvard University has occupied the numero uno rank among national universities across the US, beating its Ivy League rival Princeton University by a single point in the US News and World Report's influential Best Colleges 2011 rankings.
Last year, Harvard had shared the top position with Princeton University. Princeton scored 99 points and dropped to the second position in the 2011 rankings of US' large, research-oriented institutions.
Harvard scores high on criteria like graduation rates, financial and faculty resources. Yale University was ranked third, followed by Columbia University in the fourth place. Stanford University is tied at the fifth place with the University of Pennsylvania. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked seventh while Cornell University grabbed the fifteenth position.
Williams College in Massachusetts emerged as the nation's top-ranked national liberal arts college - a category of schools that place a higher emphasis on undergraduate programmes. The University of California Berkeley, which is ranked as the twenty-second national university, is the top-ranked public school.
This marks the twenty-seventh year that the American news magazine has published college rankings. It takes into account factors such as SAT scores, selectivity, graduation and retention rates, alumni and peer reputation while grading America's colleges and universities.
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