( KRON ) — The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) released its “2025 Best Colleges in the U.S.” list earlier this month. Surprise! An Ivy League school, Princeton University, was ranked at the top of the list at No. 1.
The top 10 schools on the list also included the usual suspects: Stanford (No. 3), Yale (No. 4), MIT (No. 6), Harvard (No. 7), etc. However, one Bay Area school made an astronomical jump from last year and cracked the Top 20.
WSJ ranked San José State University as the 16th-best college in the country. It was also ranked as the fourth-best public university nationwide and third-best public school in California.
SJSU was ranked 173rd by the newspaper in the year prior. It was then ranked as the 19th-best public school in California. Nationally, SJSU jumped 157 spots higher in WSJ’s overall rankings from the 2024 to 2025 list.
“San José State is a premier public university in the country, and we are thrilled this ranking highlights what many Spartans already know — SJSU prepares students to succeed as graduates and transform their lives,” SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson said in a statement. “We are the anchor institution of the Epicenter of the Future here in Silicon Valley, and our tremendous students, faculty, staff, alumni and community deserve the credit for making this university a world-class institution.”