Forks up, bear down.

Last year, the University of Arizona ranked ahead of rival Arizona State University in college rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. This year, though, they’ve traded places . ASU has nudged up a few spots while U of A has fallen nearly 20 slots, making ASU the highest-ranked school in the state.

U.S. News & World Report evaluated more than 1,700 U.S. colleges and universities by 17 factors to measure “academic quality and academic success,” according to its website. The rankings, which include more than 400 schools, rely on data from statistical surveys, the Department of Education and the Common Data Set Initiative, which is a data partnership between CollegeBoard, U.S. News and Peterson’s.

From this data, U.S. News ranks universities by weighing grad

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