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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Harry Cockburn

US college rankings for 2025 are released amid a year of turmoil for universities

Trump’s crackdown on ‘woke’ universities has little impact on which big-hitters are jostling for the top spots in higher education.

It has been a tough year for universities in America. A key battleground for culture war hostilities, many of the U.S.’s elite institutions have been threatened by the Trump administration with funding cuts, prevented from enrolling international students, accused of accepting antisemitism, and forced to agree to specific policies, for example, on transgender people in sports.

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