US News & World Report ranks Notre Dame

Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, September 20, 2016

In this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges Rankings released last week, Notre Dame jumped from No. 18 to No. 15 in the national universities category, landing at a tie with Cornell University, Rice University and Vanderbilt University. The rankings are assigned based upon quantitative measures — such as graduation rates, student selectivity and test