In the new 2012 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, Harvard and Princeton are tied for the top spot among national universities. In the previous year, Harvard was first and Princeton second.Ties are even more common in the current rankings than in those for 2011.

Among the top 50, the University of Miami moved up from being tied at number 47 to a tie for 38. Yeshiva University was ranked 50th in 2011 and moved up to a tie at 45. Other national universities that rose more than two places are Brandeis, from 34 to 31; Case Western Reserve, from 41 to 38; and Wisconsin, from 45 to 42.

Universities in the top 50 that dropped three or more places were Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (41 to 50), UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine. However, the UC system universities were ranked very highly overall. A change of less than four or five places may be insignificant, given the number of ties.

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