U S News University Rankings in USA 09-12

U.S. News rank	School	Tuition and Fees	Total enrollment	Fall 2013 acceptance rate	Average freshman retention rate	6-year graduation rate	Classes with fewer than 20 students	SAT/ACT 25th-75th percentile
#1	Princeton University  Princeton, NJ	$41,820	8,014	7.4%	98%	97%	Locked	Locked
#2	Harvard University  Cambridge, MA	$43,938	19,882	5.8%	97%	97%	Locked	Locked
#3	Yale University  New Haven, CT	$45,800	12,109	6.9%	99%	98%	Locked	Locked
#4Tie	Columbia University New York, NY	$51,008	23,606	6.9%	99%	96%	Locked	Locked
#4Tie	Stanford University  Stanford, CA	$44,757	18,136	5.7%	98%	96%	Locked	Locked
#4Tie	University of Chicago  Chicago, IL	$48,253	12,539	8.8%	99%	93%	Locked	Locked
#7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Cambridge, MA	$45,016	11,301	8.2%	98%	93%	Locked	Locked
#8Tie	Duke University  Durham, NC	$47,488	15,465	12.4%	97%	94%	Locked	Locked
#8Tie	University of Pennsylvania  Philadelphia, PA	$47,668	21,358	12.2%	98%	96%	Locked	Locked
#10	California Institute of Technology  Pasadena, CA	$43,362	2,181	10.6%	97%	93%	Locked	Locked
#11	Dartmouth College  Hanover, NH	$48,108	6,342	10.4%	98%	95%	Locked	Locked
#12	Johns Hopkins University  Baltimore, MD	$47,060	21,052	17.1%	97%	93%	Locked	Locked
#13	Northwestern University  Evanston, IL	$47,251	20,997	14%	97%	94%	Locked	Locked
#14	Washington University in St. Louis  St. Louis, MO	$46,467	14,032	15.6%	97%	94%	Locked	Locked
#15	Cornell University  Ithaca, NY	$47,286	21,593	15.6%	97%	93%	Locked	Locked
#16Tie	Brown University  Providence, RI	$47,434	8,943	9.2%	98%	94%	Locked	Locked
#16Tie	University of Notre Dame  Notre Dame, IN	$46,237	12,124	22.3%	98%	95%	Locked	Locked
#16Tie	Vanderbilt University  Nashville, TN	$43,838	12,757	12.7%	97%	93%	Locked	Locked
#19	Rice University  Houston, TX	$40,566	6,628	16.7%	97%	91%	Locked	Locked
#20	University of California—​Berkeley  Berkeley, CA	in-state: $13,844, out-of-state: $25,064	36,204	17.7%	97%	91%	Locked	Locked
#21Tie	Emory University  Atlanta, GA	$45,008	14,513	26.5%	95%	91%	Locked	Locked
#21Tie	Georgetown University  Washington, DC	$46,744	17,849	17.1%	96%	92%	Locked	Locked
#23Tie	University of California—​Los Angeles  Los Angeles, CA	in-state: $12,702, out-of-state: $35,580	42,190	20.4%	97%	90%	Locked	Locked
#23Tie	University of Virginia  Charlottesville, VA	in-state: $12,998, out-of-state: $42,184	23,464	30.1%	97%	93%	Locked	Locked
#25Tie	Carnegie Mellon University  Pittsburgh, PA	$48,786	12,991	25.5%	95%	88%	Locked	Locked
#25Tie	University of Southern California  Los Angeles, CA	$48,280	41,368	19.8%	97%	91%	Locked	Locked

#27Tie	Tufts University  Medford, MA	$48,643	10,872	18.9%	97%	92%	Locked	Locked
#27Tie	Wake Forest University  Winston-Salem, NC	$46,200	7,602	35.2%	94%	86%	Locked	Locked
#29	University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor  Ann Arbor, MI	in-state: $13,977, out-of-state: $41,811	43,710	33.3%	97%	90%	Locked	Locked
#30	University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill  Chapel Hill, NC	in-state: $8,374, out-of-state: $33,624	29,127	26.7%	97%	90%	Locked	Locked
#31	Boston College  Chestnut Hill, MA	$47,436	13,525	32.2%	95%	91%	Locked	Locked
#32	New York University  New York, NY	$46,170	44,599	32.4%	92%	84%	Locked	Locked
#33Tie	College of William and Mary  Williamsburg, VA	in-state: $17,656, out-of-state: $39,360	8,376	33.2%	96%	90%	Locked	Locked
#33Tie	University of Rochester  Rochester, NY	$46,960	11,020	35.7%	96%	85%	Locked	Locked
#35Tie	Brandeis University  Waltham, MA	$47,833	5,825	37%	93%	90%	Locked	Locked
#35Tie	Georgia Institute of Technology  Atlanta, GA	in-state: $11,394, out-of-state: $30,698	21,471	41.1%	95%	82%	Locked	Locked
#37	University of California—​San Diego La Jolla, CA	in-state: $13,302, out-of-state: $36,180	28,731	36.8%	95%	86%	Locked	Locked
#38Tie	Case Western Reserve University  Cleveland, OH	$43,158	10,325	41.9%	93%	80%	Locked	Locked
#38Tie	University of California—​Davis  Davis, CA	in-state: $13,896, out-of-state: $36,774	33,307	41.3%	93%	84%	Locked	Locked
#40Tie	Lehigh University  Bethlehem, PA	$44,890	7,096	30.8%	94%	86%	Locked	Locked
#40Tie	University of California—​Santa Barbara  Santa Barbara, CA	in-state: $13,746, out-of-state: $36,624	22,225	39.8%	92%	86%	Locked	Locked
#42Tie	Boston University  Boston, MA	$46,664	32,411	36.9%	92%	84%	Locked	Locked
#42Tie	Northeastern University  Boston, MA	$43,440	20,034	32.3%	95%	83%	Locked	Locked
#42Tie	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  Troy, NY	$47,908	6,995	41.2%	93%	85%	Locked	Locked
#42Tie	University of California—​Irvine  Irvine, CA	in-state: $14,757, out-of-state: $37,635	28,895	41.1%	94%	86%	Locked	Locked
#42Tie	University of Illinois—​Urbana-​Champaign  Champaign, IL	in-state: $15,602, out-of-state: $30,228	44,942	62.4%	94%	84%	Locked	Locked
#47	University of Wisconsin—​Madison Madison, WI	in-state: $10,410, out-of-state: $26,660	43,275	51.1%	95%	84%	Locked	Locked
#48Tie	Pennsylvania State University—​University Park  University Park, PA	in-state: $17,502, out-of-state: $30,452	46,615	55.5%	92%	85%	Locked	Locked
#48Tie	University of Florida  Gainesville, FL	in-state: $6,313, out-of-state: $28,591	49,878	46.6%	96%	87%	Locked	Locked
#48Tie	University of Miami  Coral Gables, FL	$44,350	16,935	40.5%	91%	82%	Locked	Locked
#48Tie	University of Washington  Seattle, WA	in-state: $12,394, out-of-state: $33,513	43,762	55.2%	93%	82%	Locked	Locked
#48Tie	Yeshiva University  New York, NY	$38,730	6,744	82.2%	91%	89%	Locked	Locked

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