2013 Best Colleges list includes Oregon, Oregon State

EUGENE, Ore. - The 2013 Best Colleges edition of the US News and World Report ranks Oregon at #115 and Oregon State at #139 among national universities.

All of the universities in the Pac-12 made the national list, led by Stanford at #6. Princeton and Harvard tied for #1, followed by Yale at #3.

Among national liberal arts colleges, Willamette University in Salem led the way from Oregon at #63. Whitman College in Washington state ranked the best amongst Northwest schools at #43.

For graduate programs at national universities, the UO College of Education ranked #8. The UO School of Law came in at #82. The School of Business ranked #91.

The Oregon State College of Engineering ranked #82.


National Universities (Pac-12 schools)

#6 Stanford University

#21 UC Berkeley

#24 UCLA

#24 USC

#46 University of Washington

#97 University of Colorado, Boulder

#115 University of Oregon

#120 University of Arizona

#125 University of Utah

#125 Washington State

#139 Arizona State

#139 Oregon State


National Liberal Arts Colleges (Northwest Schools)

#43 Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash.

#63 Willamette University in Salem, Ore.

#70 Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.

#75 Reed College in Portland, Ore.

#85 University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash.

#112 Linfield College in McMinnvile, Ore.

#164 College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho

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