Harvard takes the top spot in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges 2011 – (Image Source)

US News and World Report has released it’s always eagerly anticipated Best Colleges rankings for 2011, and probably not surprisingly it’s Harvard in the top spot this year. Harvard was also in the top spot in the US News and World Report 2010 rankings, but it had to share with Princeton. This year it holds the honor alone.

Rounding out the top ten were Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Penn, Cal Tech, MIT, Dartmouth, and Duke.

US News and World Report ranks liberal arts colleges separately, and it’s top five there were Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Middlebury, and Wellesley. Williams was also number one in 2010.
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Georgia tops the Princeton Review Party School rankings for 2011

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The Princeton Review has once again released their annual list of the best party schools in America. The rankings are compiled by a voluntary email survey of 122,000 students from over 370 colleges. Most of the schools on this year’s rankings are large state schools (no surprise there), although a couple of smaller schools do manage to sneak onto the list (Ohio U and DePauw). I am not too surprised by the makeup of the Princeton Review’s rankings (OU riots a couple of times a year and has an insane Halloween weekend, so I can only imagine the qualifications of other schools on the list), but I’m sure dozens of other schools could also make a claim as one of the top party schools in America.

Georgia finds itself on top for the first time in the Princeton Review’s ranking history, check out the rest of the rankings after the jump:
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