A sensation of the new ranking was that famous universities belonging to the Ivy League significantly ceded the top positions to public universities.
The top five positions among public universities were taken by: Texas A&M, University of Texas, Austin, Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, University of Washington.
From the Ivy League universities, the top five places were distributed as follows: Princeton, Dartmouth College, Yale, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania. As reported by Parta.org, in the overall ranking they took places from 11th to 15th.