U.S. News & World Report's top 25 universities

(AP) -- U.S. News & World Report uses its own formula to rate more than 1,400 four-year institutions. While the magazine sorts schools into several categories, the most prestigious is culled from the 249 schools the magazine calls "national universities-doctoral." The scoring system produces ties, hence the repeated numbers.

The top 25 national universities, according to U.S. News:

1. Princeton University

2. Harvard University

2. Yale University

4. California Institute of Technology

5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5. Stanford University

5. University of Pennsylvania

8. Duke University

9. Columbia University

9. Dartmouth College

9. University of Chicago

12. Northwestern University

12. Rice University

14. Cornell University

14. Washington University in St. Louis

16. Brown University

16. Johns Hopkins University

18. Emory University

19. University of Notre Dame

20. University of California-Berkeley

21. Vanderbilt University

21. University of Virginia

23. Carnegie Mellon University

23. Georgetown University

25. University of Michigan

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