Princeton Back at #1 in US News Rankings

[Updated: 6 PM EST. See below.]So we still have seven hours until US News & World Report releases its 2010 college rankings, a.k.a. the most important publication in the history of mankind. If you're a total square (don't worry, Huey Lewis says it's hip), you can go to the website and stare at its gigantic countdown clock until midnight, when the American higher education system will shudder and have a collective orgasm.Or, you can just find out the rankings here.The internet is a gossipy place, children, and it looks like the list has been leaked! Princeton has returned to the number one spot, after an entire year as number two behind Harvard. If the leaked list is accurate, Princeton has been ranked number one for nine of the past 10 years.See the full list after the jump!1. Harvard1. Princeton3. Yale4. Caltech4. MIT4. Stanford4. UPenn8. Columbia8. Chicago10. Duke11. Dartmouth12. Northwestern12. Washu14. Hopkins15. Cornell16. Brown17. Emory17. Rice17. Vanderbilt20. Notre Dame21. Berkeley22. Carnegie Mellon23. Georgetown24. UCLA24. UVA26. USC27. Michigan28. Tufts28. UNC28. Wake Forest31. Brandeis32. NYU33. William and Mary34. Boston College35. Georgia Tech35. Lehigh35. UCSD35. Rochester39. U of Illnois- Urbana-Champaign39. Wisconsin-Madison41. Case Western42. RPI42. UC-Davis42. UC-Santa Barbara42. Washington46. UC-Irvine47. Penn State47. University of Florida47. Texas-Austin50. Tulane50. MiamiAnd, for the first time ever, US News also published a ranking of undergraduate teaching:National Universities1. Dartmouth2. Princeton3. Yale4. Stanford4. University of Md - Baltimore County6. Brown6. William and Mary8. Duke8. Miami - Oxford8. Notre Dame11. Bowling Green State11. Howard11. Rice11. Berkeley11. Chicago11. UMich11. UNC11. St. Thomas11. Wake ForestUPDATE:The internet never lies! Princeton's ascension has been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal, the AP, and US News.(sources: collegeconfidential.com, oracle.com)