In the September 2010 edition of U.S. News & World Report, the college rankings for best regional U.S. universities were unveiled.

If you are looking at colleges out West, you may be interested to see which colleges rank the best in the Western U.S..

While the official rankings list the top 47 universities in the West region of teh United States, I have only included the top 19 Western universities in the United States.

You will notice that there are some ties, which resulted in multiple universities having the same rank.

Here is the list of the top 25 best national universities in the United States, according to U.S. News & World Report:

1. Trinity University
2. Santa Clara University
3. Loyola Marymount University
4. Gonzaga University
4. Mills College
6. Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo
6. Seattle University
8. Chapman University
9. University of Portland
9. University of Redlands
9. Whitworth University
12. St. Mary’s College of California
13. Pacific Lutheran University
14. Seattle Pacific University
15. University of Dallas
16. Point Loma Nazarene University
17. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
18. California Lutheran University
19. Abilene Christian University
19. St. Mary’s University of San Antonio