Cornell fell two spots in U.S. News & World Report’s much anticipated rankings for 2009. The University was listed as No. 14 of “America’s Best Colleges,” down from No. 12 in the 2008 survey. Cornell has fluctuated between tenth and fourteenth place for most of the past two decades.
Harvard led the list this year. It pulled ahead of perennial No. 1 Princeton by one-tenth of a point. Princeton and Yale came in second and third.
For the fourth year in a row, Cornell’s applied and engineering physics program ranked No. 1 among its peers. The undergraduate engineering program as a whole was ranked eighth in the nation.