U.S. News The Daily Beast’s Colleges Rankings 2014 The Daily Beast crunched the data for nearly 2,000 colleges and universities to rank schools on the things students say they really care about. Click through for this year’s Top 250. Brandy Zadrozny Updated Apr. 14, 2017 2:24PM EDT / Published Nov. 06, 2014 5:45AM EST Quinn Ryan/The Daily Beast Brandy Zadrozny @BrandyZadrozny Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.