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Three New England Schools Named to List of Top 10 Colleges in U.S.

Three Massachusetts schools also ranked among the top national liberal arts colleges

CAMBRIDGE, MA – OCTOBER 10:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology students play football outside the Maclaurin building October 10, 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  (Photo by William B. Plowman/Getty Images)
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CAMBRIDGE, MA – OCTOBER 10: Massachusetts Institute of Technology students play football outside the Maclaurin building October 10, 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by William B. Plowman/Getty Images)

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.

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.

You can see the full list here.

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