Princeton was ranked the best U.S. university for a sixth straight year, followed by Harvard, according to the U.S. News And World Report 2017 Best Colleges Rankings issued last Tuesday.

于上周二公布的《美国新闻与世界报道》2017年最佳大学排行榜显示，普林斯顿连续第6年被评为美国最佳大学，哈佛大学紧随其后。

The University of Chicago, which was ranked ninth several years ago, tied with Yale University for the third best national college this year.

几年前排名第九的芝加哥大学，今年与耶鲁大学在全美最佳高校排行榜中并列第3。

Meanwhile, Willams College was ranked the top liberal arts college for the 14th consecutive¹ year, followed by Amherst, Wellesley and Swarthmore.

同时，威廉姆斯学院连续第14年被列为最佳文理学院，阿默斯特学院、韦尔斯利学院、斯沃斯莫尔学院位列2-4位。

Among public universities, the University of California at Berkeley remained at the top of the ranks for the 19th year in a row, followed by the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Virginia.

在公立大学排名中，加州大学伯克利分校连续第19年蝉联榜首，其次为加州大学洛杉矶分校和弗吉尼亚大学。

The survey assessed more than 18,000 US-based colleges and universities, of which 1,374 were ranked.

该调查评估了超1.8万所美国高校，其中1374所高校榜上有名。

The institutions receive rankings based on some 15 measures of academic quality, including graduation rates, faculty² resources, financial resources, alumni donations and test scores of incoming students and admission rates.

高校排名依据约15项学术质量指标，包括毕业率、师资资源、财务资源、校友捐赠、新生考试成绩和录取率。

Many of these data points vary slightly from year to year.

这些数据中的许多项每年都会稍有不同。