In the 2000 U.S. News & World Report college rankings, the top 25 national universities were as follows:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Princeton University
- Yale University
- Stanford University
- Duke University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Columbia University
- Dartmouth College
- Northwestern University
- University of Chicago
- Rice University
- Cornell University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Brown University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Emory University
- University of Notre Dame
- Vanderbilt University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Virginia
- Georgetown University
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Notably, Caltech achieved the #1 position in 2000, a significant change attributed to adjustments in the ranking methodology that year. ?cite?turn0search9?
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