USC, UCLA Advance In 2011 Academic Rankings
U.S. News and World Report has released its annual list of best colleges.
Caltech tied at seventh with traditional rival Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
USC tied for 23rd place with Carnegie Mellon University. UCLA tied for 25th with University of Virginia and Wake Forest University.
Topping the list were Ivy Leaguers Harvard, Princeton and Yale.
The rankings appear in U.S. News and World Report's "Best Colleges 2011" issue.
