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Alright, you know how accurate statistics are. But, if you insist, here are the college rankings of the top 50 schools as ranked by the U.S. News & World Report Inc.. To read more about the various ways colleges are ranked and what the rankings mean, we suggest you visit the U.S. News website.

1. California Institute of Technology
2. Harvard University (MA)
3. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
4. Princeton University (NJ)
5. Yale University (CT)
6. Stanford University (CA)
7. Duke University (NC)
8. Johns Hopkins University (MD)
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. Columbia University (NY)
11. Cornell University (NY)
12. Dartmouth College (NH)
13. University of Chicago
14. Brown University (RI)
15. Northwestern University (IL)
16. Rice University (TX)
17. Washington University (MO)
18. Emory University (GA)
19. University of Notre Dame (IN)
20. University of California–Berkeley
21. Vanderbilt University (TN)
22. University of Virginia
23. Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
24. Georgetown University (DC)
25. University of California–Los Angeles
26. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
27. Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
28. Wake Forest University (NC)
29. College of William and Mary (VA)
30. Tufts University (MA)
31. Brandeis University (MA)
32. University of California–San Diego
33. University of Rochester (NY)
34. Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
35. Lehigh University (PA)
36. New York University
37. Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
38. University of Wisconsin–Madison
39. Boston College
40. Georgia Institute of Technology
41. Pennsylvania State U.–University Park
42. University of California–Davis
43. University of Southern California
44. Tulane University (LA)
45. Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
46. University of Texas–Austin
47. University of Washington
48. Yeshiva University (NY)
49. University of California–Irvine
50. University of Florida