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The '''US News rankings''' are the most widely used set of college and graduate professional school rankings. 

==Undergraduate ranking==

As an undergraduate institution, Columbia typically placed around 8th or 9th, at least until the [[2011]] rankings were released. This is probably fairly accurate, but many people believed that Columbia was consistently under-ranked because its admissions committee places less of an emphasis on [[SAT]] scores than most of the other top 10 universities. Additionally, alumni giving is consistently lower at Columbia than at comparable institutions, further affecting our rank. Somehow, [[Penn]] managed to consistently achieve higher rank, which, of course, was a perversion of general logic. 

The 2011 rankings placed Columbia in a surprising but not necessarily unwarranted fourth place. This put Columbia in its generally-assumed position relative to the rest of the [[Ivy League]], bested only by [[Harvard]], [[Yale]], and [[Princeton]], but many were genuinely surprised to find Columbia beating even high achieving [[Stanford]] and [[MIT]].

==Law school ranking==

For the past few years, the [[law school]] has been battling with [[NYU]] for fifth place. In [[2008]], it claimed fourth place, decisively beating its downtown rival. 

== Historical Rankings ==
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20081225010025/http://chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php?category=Universities&orgs=&sort=1988 US News National University Rankings 1983-2007] 

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