Cornell is the top-rated Ivy League school in Washington Monthly's third annual college rankings, which mark on a curve that takes into account how universities serve as engines of social mobility, their support for research enterprise and the extent to which their students engage in national service. Cornell placed seventh in the magazine's top 10, besting last year's eighth-place ranking.

In the annual Princeton Review survey of 366 best colleges, Cornell also earned top 10 spots in:

Princeton Review is a private company in New York City known for its services to help students with the college application process. The Princeton Review survey asks students 80 questions about their school's academics, administration, campus life and student body, and about themselves. The results are published in the "Best 366 Colleges" (Random House/Princeton Review). Tallies for this edition's rankings are based on surveys of 120,000 students (about 325 per campus) at the 366 schools in the book -- not all schools in the nation -- during 2006-07 or the previous two school years, or both.

The Washington Monthly, a political magazine, based its national university rankings on: social mobility (as measured, for example, by percentage of Pell Grant recipients), support for the research enterprise (research grants awarded and also percentage of undergraduate alumni who go on to earn Ph.D.s) and national service (through such measures as ROTC participation and percentage of alumni who enter the Peace Corps). Top ranked were Texas A&M University, University of California-Los Angeles and University of California-Berkeley.