The University of Colorado at Boulder was tied for 31st in the annual rankings of the nation聮s top public four-year institutions in U.S. News & World Report聮s 1999 Best Colleges issue.
The nation聮s top public university in the latest U.S. News rankings was the University of California-Berkeley, followed by the University of Virginia. The University of California-Los Angeles and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor tied for third, while the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was fifth.
CU-Boulder was tied for 31st with Indiana University-Bloomington, Michigan State University, Ohio University, the University of California-Riverside, the University of California-Santa Cruz and the University of Connecticut.
In the 1999 ranking of the nation聮s top 228 universities, public and private, the California Institute of Technology ranked first, followed by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Princeton University and Yale University tied for fifth.
The rankings were based on factors such as the institution聮s academic reputation, retention, faculty resources, student selectivity and financial resources. CU-Boulder was ranked alphabetically in the second of four tiers among the 228 national universities, as it was in the 1998 Best Colleges issue.
CU-Boulder聮s academic reputation was ranked at 3.6 out of a possible 4.0 by the weekly news magazine.
The 1999 rankings will be published in the Aug. 23 issue of U.S. News.