At the end of last summer, U.S. News & World Report ranked Harvard No. 2 behind the California Institute of Technology in its annual list of the top national universities.

Now, according to a new Web site, Ritzsurvey.com, Harvard has taken second place again--this time among Ivy League colleges--with Princeton taking the lead.

The Ritz Survey of Colleges and Universities recently released "preview" ratings of the Ivy League schools, based on more than 2,000 on-line student responses, according to an e-mail message from Jim Corbett, the editor of Ritz Survey.

The Web site features rankings of the Ivy League colleges and the University of California colleges. The site, founded this year, also ranks doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, lawyers and politicians on its Web site.

In its ranking of the Ivy League schools, Ritz Survey included four main categories--faculty, administration, student life and facilities. Each category is scored from one to 50.

Harvard was ranked first in student life and tied for first in facilities with Princeton. But, according to the survey, it falls behind Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale and Princeton in both faculty and in administration.

The faculty score was determined by ratings in "courtesy," "engagement," "accessibility" and "care." The administration score was based on scores in "attentiveness," "bureaucracy," "accessibility" and "care." The Web site does not give explanations as to how these sub-categories are to be defined.

Princeton received an overall score of 178 points while Harvard received 165. Third-place Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania each scored 164.