Costs 2008 Total enrollment Fall 2008 Acceptance rate Compare
Rank
1 Harvard University Cambridge, MA
100 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $37,012 19,230 7.9%
Rank
1 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
100 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $35,340 7,497 9.9%
Rank
3 Yale University New Haven, CT
98 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $36,500 11,446 8.6%
Rank
4 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
93 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $34,584 2,126 17.4%
Rank
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
93 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $37,782 10,299 11.9%
Rank
4 Stanford University Stanford, CA
93 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $37,881 17,833 9.5%
Rank
4 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
93 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,970 19,018 16.9%
Rank
8 Columbia University New York, NY
91 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $41,316 23,196 10.0%
Rank
8 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
91 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,381 12,386 27.9%
Rank
10 Duke University Durham, NC
90 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,975 14,060 22.4%
Rank
11 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
89 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,679 5,848 13.5%
Rank
12 Northwestern University Evanston, IL
87 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,461 18,431 26.2%
Rank
12 Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO
87 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,864 13,338 21.7%
Rank
14 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
86 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,150 19,858 25.4%
Rank
15 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
85 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $37,954 20,273 20.7%
Rank
16 Brown University Providence, RI
84 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,848 8,318 13.7%
Rank
17 Emory University Atlanta, GA
80 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,036 12,755 26.6%
Rank
17 Rice University Houston, TX
80 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $31,248 5,456 23.0%
Rank
17 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
80 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,579 12,093 25.3%
Rank
20 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
78 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,477 11,731 26.7%
Rank
21 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA
76 2009-2010 In-state: $8,352; Out-of-state: $30,022 35,409 21.6%
Rank
22 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
75 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,833 11,064 37.9%
Rank
23 Georgetown University Washington, DC
74 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,212 15,318 18.8%
Rank
24 University of California--Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
73 2009-2010 In-state: $8,228; Out-of-state: $29,897 39,650 22.8%
Rank
24 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
73 2009-2010 In-state: $9,870; Out-of-state: $31,870 24,541 36.7%
Costs 2008 Total enrollment Fall 2008 Acceptance rate Compare
Rank
26 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
72 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,124 33,747 21.9%
Rank
27 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
71 2009-2010 In-state: $11,738; Out-of-state: $34,230 41,028 42.1%
Rank
28 Tufts University Medford, MA
70 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $40,342 10,030 25.5%
Rank
28 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
70 2008-2009 In-state: $5,396; Out-of-state: $22,294 28,567 34.0%
Rank
28 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC
70 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,622 6,862 38.4%
Rank
31 Brandeis University Waltham, MA
67 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,762 5,327 32.4%
Rank
32 New York University New York, NY
66 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,765 42,189 32.1%
Rank
33 College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA
64 2009-2010 In-state: $10,800; Out-of-state: $30,592 7,892 34.1%
Rank
34 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA
63 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,130 13,903 26.2%
Rank
35 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
62 2009-2010 In-state: $7,506; Out-of-state: $25,716 19,413 60.9%
Rank
35 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA
62 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,630 6,994 27.9%
Rank
35 University of California--San Diego La Jolla, CA
62 2009-2010 In-state: $8,798; Out-of-state: $30,819 27,520 41.6%
Rank
35 University of Rochester Rochester, NY
62 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,690 9,712 42.7%
Rank
39 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
61 2009-2010 In-state: $13,060; Out-of-state: $26,714 43,246 69.1%
Rank
39 University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI
61 2009-2010 In-state: $8,020; Out-of-state: $22,270 42,030 52.7%
Rank
41 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
60 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $36,238 9,814 73.3%
Rank
42 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY
59 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,165 7,521 44.1%
Rank
42 University of California--Davis Davis, CA
59 2009-2010 In-state: $9,364; Out-of-state: $31,385 30,568 52.6%
Rank
42 University of California--Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA
59 2009-2010 In-state: $9,055; Out-of-state: $30,724 21,868 49.2%
Rank
42 University of Washington Seattle, WA
59 2009-2010 In-state: $7,692; Out-of-state: $24,367 41,517 61.0%
Rank
46 University of California--Irvine Irvine, CA
58 2009-2010 In-state: $8,775; Out-of-state: $28,796 26,984 48.7%
Rank
47 Pennsylvania State University--University Park University Park, PA
57 2009-2010 In-state: $14,416; Out-of-state: $25,946 44,406 51.2%
Rank
47 University of Florida Gainesville, FL
57 2009-2010 In-state: $4,373; Out-of-state: $23,744 51,474 39.5%
Rank
47 University of Texas--Austin Austin, TX
57 2009-2010 In-state: $8,930; Out-of-state: $30,600 49,984 43.5%
Rank
50 Tulane University New Orleans, LA
55 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $40,564 11,157 27.0%