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The top 50 colleges in the United States, ranked
50. Bryn Mawr College
48. Lehigh University (tie)
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Outcomes: 65
Resources: 38
Engagement: 126
Environment: 356
Average net price: $27,478
2018 ranking: 50
48. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (tie)
Location: Champaign, Illinois
Outcomes: 31
Resources: 306
Engagement: 34
Environment: 93
Average net price: $16,683
2018 ranking: 48
47. University of Miami
Location: Coral Gables, Florida
Outcomes: 68
Resources: 78
Engagement: 34
Environment: 78
Average net price: $37,424
2018 ranking: 44
46. Wesleyan University
Location: Middletown, Connecticut
Outcomes: 64
Resources: 35
Engagement: 345
Environment: 193
Average net price: $20,490
2018 ranking: 45
45. University of California, San Diego
Location: La Jolla, California
Outcomes: 32
Resources: 186
Engagement: 387
Environment: 13
Average net price: $14,770
2018 ranking: 47
44. Bowdoin College
Location: Brunswick, Maine
Outcomes: 47
Resources: 38
Engagement: 142
Environment: 501-600
Average net price: $24,888
2018 ranking: 39
43. Purdue University West Lafayette
Location: West Lafayette, Indiana
Outcomes: 37
Resources: 92
Engagement: 68
Environment: 338
Average net price: $11,693
2018 ranking: 43
41. Smith College (tie)
Location: Northampton, Massachusetts
Outcomes: 58
Resources: 40
Engagement: 304
Environment: 153
Average net price: $24,258
2018 ranking: 37
41. University of California, Davis (tie)
Location: Davis, California
Outcomes: 35
Resources: 171
Engagement: 201
Environment: 8
Average net price: $16,039
2018 ranking: 46
39. Haverford College (tie)
Location: Haverford, Pennsylvania
Outcomes: 50
Resources: 25
Engagement: 459
Environment: 323
Average net price: $21,144
2018 ranking: 42
39. Case Western Reserve University (tie)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Outcomes: 53
Resources: 32
Engagement: 459
Environment: 225
Average net price: $33,124
2018 ranking: 34
37. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (tie)
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Outcomes: 29
Resources: 99
Engagement: 246
Environment: 417
Average net price: $10,077
2018 ranking: 33
37. Middlebury College (tie)
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Outcomes: 42
Resources: 37
Engagement: 499
Environment: 450
Average net price: $21,437
2018 ranking: 36
36. Boston University
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Outcomes: 52
Resources: 58
Engagement: 68
Environment: 210
Average net price: $31,539
2018 ranking: 40
35. Carleton College
Location: Northfield, Minnesota
Outcomes: 44
Resources: 47
Engagement: 217
Environment: 292
Average net price: $28,587
2018 ranking: 38
33. Claremont McKenna College (tie)
Location: Claremont, California
Outcomes: 50
Resources: 28
Engagement: 246
Environment: 225
Average net price: $30,527
2018 ranking: 35
33. University of California, Berkeley (tie)
Location: Berkeley, California
Outcomes: 30
Resources: 181
Engagement: 126
Environment: 24
Average net price: $17,160
2018 ranking: 40
32. Tufts University
Location: Medford, Massachusetts
Outcomes: 48
Resources: 18
Engagement: 246
Environment: 323
Average net price: $28,076
2018 ranking: 32
31. Swarthmore College
Location: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Outcomes: 49
Resources: 30
Engagement: 91
Environment: 105
Average net price: $19,641
2018 ranking: 30
30. Georgetown University
Location: Washington, D.C.
Outcomes: 33
Resources: 50
Engagement: 142
Environment: 246
Average net price: $26,625
2018 ranking: 31
29. Wellesley College
Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts
Outcomes: 43
Resources: 25
Engagement: 217
Environment: 141
Average net price: $20,013
2018 ranking: 28
28. University of Michigan — Ann Arbor
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Outcomes: 20
Resources: 91
Engagement: 12
Environment: 309
Average net price: $16,107
2018 ranking: 27
27. New York University
Location: New York City
Outcomes: 39
Resources: 44
Engagement: 68
Environment: 78
Average net price: $35,147
2018 ranking: 29
26. University of Notre Dame
Location: Notre Dame, Indiana
Outcomes: 24
Resources: 28
Engagement: 68
Environment: 500
Average net price: $26,683
2018 ranking: 24
25. University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles, California
Outcomes: 22
Resources: 119
Engagement: 16
Environment: 8
Average net price: $14,236
2018 ranking: 25
24. Pomona College
Location: Claremont, California
Outcomes: 39
Resources: 24
Engagement: 217
Environment: 46
Average net price: $18,140
2018 ranking: 26
23. Williams College
Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts
Outcomes: 16
Resources: 25
Engagement: 501-600
Environment: 167
Average net price: $18,167
2018 ranking: 22
22. Amherst College
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Outcomes: 13
Resources: 30
Engagement: 601-800
Environment: 105
Average net price: $19,055
2018 ranking: 23
21. Johns Hopkins University
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Outcomes: 19
Resources: 22
Engagement: 345
Environment: 118
Average net price: $27,352
2018 ranking: 17 (tie)
20. Emory University
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Outcomes: 24
Resources: 19
Engagement: 170
Environment: 78
Average net price: $24,804
2018 ranking: 19
19. Vanderbilt University
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Outcomes: 23
Resources: 5
Engagement: 68
Environment: 406
Average net price: $23,150
2018 ranking: 21
18. Washington University in St Louis
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
Outcomes: 20
Resources: 16
Engagement: 34
Environment: 246
Average net price: $28,824
2018 ranking: 11 (tie)
17. University of Southern California
Location: Los Angeles, California
Outcomes: 24
Resources: 20
Engagement: 6
Environment: 69
Average net price: $32,932
2018 ranking: 15 (tie)
16. Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Outcomes: 13
Resources: 20
Engagement: 16
Environment: 193
Average net price: $35,250
2018 ranking: 20
14. Rice University (tie)
Location: Houston, Texas
Outcomes: 24
Resources: 7
Engagement: 34
Environment: 134
Average net price: $22,061
2018 ranking: 14
14. University of Chicago (tie)
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Outcomes: 12
Resources: 10
Engagement: 499
Environment: 141
Average net price: $31,068
2018 ranking: 11 (tie)
13. Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Outcomes: 17
Resources: 7
Engagement: 34
Environment: 270
Average net price: $29,326
2018 ranking: 15 (tie)
12. Dartmouth College
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Outcomes: 7
Resources: 12
Engagement: 25
Environment: 292
Average net price: $21,177
2018 ranking: 17 (tie)
11. Cornell University
Location: Ithaca, New York
Outcomes: 11
Resources: 13
Engagement: 52
Environment: 193
Average net price: $30,014
2018 ranking: 10
10. University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Outcomes: 10
Resources: 10
Engagement: 106
Environment: 153
Average net price: $22,944
2018 ranking: 9
9. Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Outcomes: 4
Resources: 4
Engagement: 501-600
Environment: 167
Average net price: $17,732
2018 ranking: 9
7. Duke University (tie)
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Outcomes: 1
Resources: 15
Engagement: 68
Environment: 180
Average net price: $19,950
2018 ranking: 5
7. Brown University (tie)
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Outcomes: 15
Resources: 6
Engagement: 6
Environment: 141
Average net price: $25,264
2018 ranking: 11 (tie)
6. Stanford University
Location: Stanford, California
Outcomes: 9
Resources: 16
Engagement: 52
Environment: 46
Average net price: $16,695
2018 ranking: 3 (tie)
5. California Institute of Technology
Location: Pasadena, California
Outcomes: 7
Resources: 1
Engagement: 601-800
Environment: 246
Average net price: $26,839
2018 ranking: 7
4. Columbia University
Location: New York City
Outcomes: 5
Resources: 9
Engagement: 170
Environment: 54
Average net price: $22,973
2018 ranking: 2
3. Yale University
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Outcomes: 1
Resources: 13
Engagement: 68
Environment: 105
Average net price: $18,319
2018 ranking: 6
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Outcomes: 5
Resources: 3
Engagement: 304
Environment: 118
Average net price: $21,576
2018 ranking: 3 (tie)
1. Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Outcomes: 1
Resources: 2
Engagement: 142
Environment: 134
Average net price: $16,205
2018 ranking: 1
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