US News Best Colleges Rankings 2025: America’s top 10 national universities in pics, Princeton grabs top spot

US News and World Report has released its coveted college rankings 2025. Here are the pictures of 10 top national universities in the United States. 

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Princeton University has grabbed the first spot in the list of national universities of US News Best College Rankings 2025. The campus size of the university is 690 acres, and utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. The tuition fees is $62,400. Founded in 1746. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 5,671 (fall 2023). (Coutesy/Princeton University)

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, USA has been ranked second in the list of top national universities. The campus size spreads to 168 acres, while the tuition fee is $62,396. The institute is widely popular for its programs in economics, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, physics and mathematics. (Getty Images/File)

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In the third spot among top national universities is Harvard University, It has a campus size of 5,667 acres, and the tuition fee is $61,676. Furthermore, the university utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. (Unsplash )

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Stanford University has been ranked the fourth best national university in the US News Best Colleges Rankings 2025. With a campus size sprawling to 8,180 acres, the university includes a quarter-based academic calendar. The tuition and fees are $65,910.  (X)

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Yale University comes fifth in the list of top national universities in USA. The campus size of the university is 1,108 acres, and the tuition and fees are $67,250. (AP)

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In the sixth spot among the best national universities is the California Institute of Technology, located at Pasadena. The campus size of the university is 124 acres. The fee is $65,898. (Unsplash)

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Also ranked sixth, Duke University in Durham, NC, sprawls to 8,693 acres of campus-size. The fee is $69,140. (Shutterstock)

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John Hopkins University also shares the sixth spot in the list of best national universities. It utilizes a 4-1-4-based academic calendar in its 140-acre campus. The fee is $65,230. (Twitter/@JohnsHopkins)

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Northwestern University has also been ranked sixth among top list of top national universities. As of fall 2023, the total undergraduate enrollment is reported to be 8,846, as per US News and World Report. The campus size sprawls to 231 acres, and the fee is $68,322.  (northwestern.edu)

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University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1740, has campus size of 299 acres. The university boasts of total undergraduate enrollment of 9,995, as of fall 2023. The tuition and fees are $68,686. (Shutterstock)