The University of Colorado at Boulder is ranked 25th among the nation聮s top public four-year institutions in U.S. News and World Report聮s 1999 Best Colleges issue.
The nation聮s top public universities in the U.S. News ranking were the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Virginia. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked third and the University of California-Los Angeles and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor tied for fourth.
The Colorado School of Mines, which tied for 21st, and CU-Boulder were the only Colorado schools named among the magazine's top 25 public national universities.
In the 1999 ranking of the 228 national universities, public and private, Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities tied for first, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford tied for fourth.
The rankings were based on factors such as the institution's academic reputation, graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity and financial resources.
CU-Boulder was ranked in the second of four tiers among the 228 national universities, as it was in the 1998 Best Colleges issue. The Colorado School of Mines and the University of Denver also were ranked in the second tier, Colorado State University was ranked in the third tier and the University of Northern Colorado and CU-Denver ranked in the fourth tier.