A view of the Main Quad and Memorial Church at Stanford University.

California made a strong showing in U.S. News’ latest college rankings, with two of the state’s universities earning a spot in the nation’s top five.

Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology tied for the No. 5 spot in the latest ranking published Tuesday. Both universities, though, moved in opposite directions to land there compared to last year. Stanford fell one slot while Caltech climbed six places.

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Ahead of the two California universities this year were Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 1), Princeton........

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