The University’s steady rise in the national rankings continued, as it tied for fifth place (with Stanford University and MIT) in U.S. News & World Report’s most recent rankings of national universities. Penn, which earned an overall score of 95 in the magazine’s sometimes-controversial grading system, trailed only Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Cal Tech. The rankings were published in U.S. News’ September 6 issue, whose revised system put Penn in the “National Universities—Doctoral” category. Last year, Penn was ranked sixth in the nation.