West Point Tops Best Colleges List

Harvard, Princeton top universities list

(NEWSER) - US News and World Report has released its latest college rankings, and it’s full of the usual suspects, with Harvard, Princeton, and Yale topping the list; not much has changed since last year . Among liberal arts colleges , Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore lead the pack. The magazine also presents its best universities in the world : The UK is on top, with Cambridge at No. 1, followed by Harvard and Yale (don’t ask us why Yale beats Princeton worldwide but not nationally). More»

These colleges might just drive you to suicide

(NEWSER) - This month, lots of high school overachievers will be anxiously awaiting acceptances from the halls of Ivy—even as concerns mount that these schools might not be great for your mental health. Cornell University, for example, had two suicides in as many days last month. So the Daily Beast decided to crunch some numbers and figure out which colleges were the most stressful. More»

Harvard beats out Columbia for most internet references

(NEWSER) - Institutions of higher learning care about their brand as much as any business, so the Global Language Monitor has ranked universities and colleges for the amount of buzz they command on the internet. The winners:

1. Harvard University
2. Columbia University
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4. University of California, Berkeley
5. Stanford University

Princeton Review list weighs affordability, academic quality

(NEWSER) - The Princeton Review's annual list of the best college values takes into account price—cheap tuition or generous financial aid get a thumbs up—and weighs that against the academic quality of a school based on surveys, professor-to-student ratios, and the like. USA Today takes a look at the list. First, the top public schools:

1. University of Virginia
2. Hunter College, City University of New York
3. New College of Florida
4. Florida State University
5. University of Colorado, Boulder

From Brown to Bob Jones, 'what kind of douche do you want to be'?

(NEWSER) - In college, acting insufferable is pretty much a given. “The question for America's youth is: What kind of douche bag do you aspire to be?” asks GQ. The mag helpfully offers the top options.

1. Brown University: Peace Sign on My Mom's 7 Series Douches are limo liberals too good for grades.
2. Duke University: Original Douches. “Probably number one. But we'd rather not rank Duke number one at anything.”
3. Princeton University: Eating-Club Douches “invented affectations.”
4. Harvard University: Harvard Douches—need we say more?
5. Deep Springs College: Only Six People Know About It Douches inhabit a ranch near Death Valley.