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In the past six years, the University of Washington’s graduation rate has jumped significantly. The average SAT scores for its freshmen have gone up, and 92 percent of those first-year students who chose the UW were in the top 10 percent of their high-school graduating class.

So it’s a surprise to find the UW has not risen in the ranks of national universities, at least as measured by U.S. News & World Report’s Best College Rankings 2016, which were released Wednesday.