(KRON) -- It's the start of the school year for most colleges across the country, whether they are on a semester or quarter system. For the start of the new academic year, U.S. News released its annual best colleges list on Tuesday.

From No. 1 to No. 5, U.S. News ranked these universities (in order): Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Stanford (tied for 4th) and Yale (tied for 4th).

Here's how some of the Bay Area (and Bay Area adjacent) schools ranked on U.S. News' Best Colleges list: • Stanford (No. 4) • UC Berkeley (No. 15) • UC Davis (No. 32) • Santa Clara University(No. 59) • UC Santa Cruz (No. 88) • University of San Francisco (No. 110) • San Francisco State University (No. 208) • California State University, East Bay (No. 257)

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