September 3, 1999

College Rankings Smile on Caltech and Southern Cal.; Florida State U. Dubbed Top Party School

The California Institute of Technology took the No. 1 spot in this year's rankings of research universities by U.S. News & World Report, leaping eight notches over such perennial powerhouses as Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities.

This year, the magazine changed the way it ranks research institutions, so certain factors, such as standardized-test scores and per-student spending, were weighted differently. As a result, the rankings of several

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