The University of Florida has become the first Florida school to break into the list of top 10 best public universities, coming in at No. 9, according to the 2018 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings released on September 13th.

The 2018 list of top 10 best public universities now looks like this:

1 – University of California, Berkeley *
1 – University of California, Los Angeles *
3 – University of Virginia
4 – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
5 – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
6 – College of William & Mary
7 – Georgia Institute of Technology
8 – University of California, Santa Barbara
9 – University of Florida *
9 – University of California, Irvine *
9 – University of California, San Diego *
* = tie

Now the state’s highest-ranked university, UF last year was ranked No. 14 among publics and No. 50 overall. Click here to read more.