Two Massachusetts schools and one in Connecticut were ranked among the top 10 colleges in the country in U.S. News & World report's latest rankings released Monday.
MIT ranked number two, with both Harvard University and Yale University tied with Stanford University for the third spot.
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Other New England schools included in the top 50 were New Hampshire's Dartmouth College at #12, Rhode Island's Brown University at #13, Massachusetts' Tufts University at #32, Boston College at #36, Boston University at #41, Brandeis University at #44 and Northeastern University at #44.
The University of Connecticut, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Worcester Polytechnic Institute tied for #67 with Yeshiva University in New York. Clark University in Massachusetts also finished inside the top 100 at #97, tied with eight other schools.
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The #1 school was New Jersey's Princeton University.
Three Massachusetts schools -- Williams College (#1), Amherst College (#2) and Wellesley College (#5) also ranked among the top national liberal arts colleges. Maine's Bowdoin college was sixth on that list.