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The nation聮s top public universities in the U.S. News ranking were the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Virginia. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked third and the University of California-Los Angeles and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor tied for fourth.
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In the 1999 ranking of the 228 national universities, public and private, Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities tied for first, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford tied for fourth.
The rankings were based on factors such as the institution's academic reputation, graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity and financial resources.
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