According to U.S. News & World Report, UNC ranks fifth among the nation’s best public universities for the 12th year in a row.
The newly revised rankings now appear in the 2013 edition of the “America’s Best Colleges” guidebook.
A couple of UNC’s peer institutions, the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan, ranked second and fourth on the list, respectively.
UNC ranked 30th overall among both public and private universities, dropping one spot from last year’s list.
