The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder tied for 26th in the 2000 ranking of the nationÂ’s top public four-year institutions in U.S. News & World ReportÂ’s annual Best Colleges issue, moving up from 31st in 1999. Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder was tied with the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ School of Mines, Indiana University-Bloomington, the University of California-Santa Cruz, the University of Delaware, Virginia Tech and Miami University of Oxford, Ohio.