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According to the experts at U.S. News & World Report, Rice University is once again the best college in Texas, and one of the best in the nation.

Houston’s premier private university has been ranked No. 17 among national universities for the eighth year in a row, tying with Vanderbilt and coming in just behind ivies Brown and Cornell. Rice was also ranked No. 16 for Best Value and the graduate programs in business and engineering were listed as “best” programs.

Topping the U.S. News list in a tie were perennial favorites Harvard and Princeton, followed by Yale. The rankings are based on a matrix oftraditional factors — the applicant acceptance rate, freshman retention rate, six-year graduation rate, the percentage of classes with under 20 students and SAT scores for the 25th and 75th percentile of incoming students.

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