US News and World Report has published its 2009 college rankings. Harvard is at the top. The highest ranked public university is Cal Berkeley at 21st; Virginia is 23rd, UCLA 25th, Michigan 26th, UNC 30th and William & Mary 32nd. California and Virginia are fine places to live.
NewMexiKen’s alma mater, The University of Arizona, is rated 96th among national universities — about the same overall then as its football team.
National universities according to USNews “offer a full range of undergraduate majors, master’s, and doctoral degrees.” Liberal Arts Colleges, such as Amherst and Swarthmore, are ranked in a separate list.
Columbia is #8 – a bargain at only $39,000 a year! Wow – that’s expensive.