Massachusetts has some of the best colleges and universities in the country, and more than a dozen of them made U.S. News & World Report’s Best National University Rankings list.

It’s not surprising two Bay State universities on the list broke the top 3. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in No. 2 behind Princeton University. Harvard University took the No. 3 spot. Stanford University and Yale rounded out the top five. 

U.S. News & World Report ranked nearly 1,500 U.S. four-year bachelor’s degree-granting colleges and universities, grouping them within 10 overall ranks in which they were compared with schools that shared their academic mission. The survey looked at 17 criteria, including first-year retention rates, graduation rate performance, first-generation graduation rates, financial resources per student and borrower debt.

Other Massachusetts schools that made the list include Boston College and Tufts University, which tied for the No. 37 spot. Boston University came in at No. 41, Northeastern University at No. 54, University of Massachusetts at Amherst No. 58, Brandeis University at No. 63 and Worcester Polytechnic Institute at No. 86.