The Nation - News from Nov. 17, 1985

Stanford University was ranked best in the nation in a survey of 788 college presidents conducted for U.S. News & World Report, the magazine said. It said Stanford was the choice of 40.2% of those polled, Harvard and Yale were tied at 38.4% each and Princeton was favored by 36.6%. Respondents were asked to pick the top five colleges and universities similar to their own. Other major schools in the top 10 were Duke, Brown, the University of Chicago and UC Berkeley, which received tie votes, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dartmouth.