See where U.S. News college rankings list N.Y., N.J. & Conn.

NEW YORK — For those checking the U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Colleges list, it will likely come as no surprise that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut’s Ivy League schools are among the top. But which schools outrank their peers?
New Jersey took home top honors, with Princeton University ranked number one in national universities. Connecticut is also up there, with Yale University coming in at number five.
New York fell just shy of the top 10, with Cornell University tied with the University of Chicago for 11th, and Columbia University tied with Brown University for 13th.
New York University tied with the University of Florida and the University of Texas-Austin for 30th. Of the state’s SUNY schools, Stony Brook ranked the highest in a tie for 58th.
Two New York schools also made significant progress climbing up the list this year. D’Youville University, in Buffalo, jumped 61 spots up to 259th, the most growth of any school, and Dominican University New York, in Orangeburg, jumped 40 spots up to 329th.
New Jersey’s second-place school is Rutgers University-New Brunswick in a tie for 41st, and Connecticut’s is the University of Connecticut also in a tie for 70th.
The rankings are based on 17 key measures, including retention and graduation rates, student-to-faculty ratios, earnings and debt, and standardized tests. 
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