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----- Original Message -----
From: Rohit Khare <rohit@munchkin.ics.uci.edu>
To: <fork@xent.ics.uci.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 3:17 AM
Subject: [USNews] Caltech tops college rankings for first time.
> http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/19/college.rankings.ap/
>
> Cal Tech tops college rankings for first time
> August 19, 1999
> Web posted at: 8:36 PM EDT (0036 GMT)
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- The California Institute of Technology, for the
> first time, tops U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of the
> nation's colleges.
>
> Over the 13 years of the magazine's best college rankings, Caltech --
> a 900-student school in Pasadena, California, has always been in the
> top 10, placing as high as third in the 1989 edition.
>
> The 1999 rankings are included in the magazine's annual publication,
> "America's Best Colleges," which goes on sale Tuesday. The rankings
> will also be available on the Internet at www.usnews.com.
>
> The magazine used several criteria, including an institution's
> reputation among academics; the percentage of students that go on to
> graduate; faculty pay, class size, student-faculty ratio and other
> indicators of faculty resources; student selectivity; financial
> resources, such as spending per student; and alumni giving.
>
> Top Ten National Universities :
> 1. California Institute of Technology
> 2. Harvard University
> 3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 4. Princeton University
> 5. Yale University
> 6. Stanford University
> 7. Duke University
> 8. Johns Hopkins University
> 9. University of Pennsylvania
> 10. Columbia University
>
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