Top 120 American universities

1 Harvard University (MA)
1 Princeton University (NJ)
3 Yale University (CT)
4 University of Pennsylvania
5 Duke University (NC)
5 Stanford University (CA)
7 California Institute of Technology
7 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
9 Columbia University (NY)
9 Dartmouth College (NH)
11 Washington University in St. Louis
12 Northwestern University (IL)
13 Cornell University (NY)
13 Johns Hopkins University (MD)
15 Brown University (RI)
15 University of Chicago
17 Rice University (TX)
18 University of Notre Dame (IN)
18 Vanderbilt University (TN)
20 Emory University (GA)
20 University of California – Berkeley*
22 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
23 Georgetown University (DC)
23 University of Virginia*
25 Univ. of California – Los Angeles*
25 University of Michigan – Ann Arbor*
27 Tufts University (MA)
27 U. of North Carolina – Chapel Hill*
27 Wake Forest University (NC)
30 Univ. of Southern California
31 College of William and Mary (VA)*
32 Lehigh University (PA)
32 Univ. of California – San Diego*
34 Brandeis University (MA)
34 University of Rochester (NY)
34 Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison*
37 Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
37 Georgia Institute of Technology*
37 New York University
40 Boston College
40 University of California – Irvine*
42 U. of Illinois – Urbana - Champaign*
43 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
43 Tulane University (LA)
45 Univ. of California – Santa Barbara*
45 University of Washington*
45 Yeshiva University (NY)
48 Pennsylvania State U. – University Park*
48 University of California – Davis*
50 Syracuse University (NY)
50 University of Florida*
52 University of Texas – Austin*
53 George Washington University (DC)
53 Worcester Polytechnic Inst. (MA)
55 Pepperdine University (CA)
55 Univ. of Maryland – College Park*
55 University of Miami (FL)
58 University of Georgia*
58 University of Pittsburgh*
60 Boston University
60 Ohio State University – Columbus*
60 Purdue Univ. – West Lafayette (IN)*
60 Rutgers – New Brunswick (NJ)*
60 Texas A&M Univ. – College Station*
60 University of Iowa*
66 Miami University – Oxford (OH)*
66 University of Delaware*
68 Fordham University (NY)
68 Univ. of California – Santa Cruz*
68 University of Connecticut*
71 Brigham Young Univ. – Provo (UT)
71 Southern Methodist University (TX)
71 Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)
74 Indiana University – Bloomington*
74 Michigan State University*
74 SUNY – Binghamton*
74 Univ. of Minnesota – Twin Cities*
78 Baylor University (TX)
78 Clemson University (SC)*
78 North Carolina State U. – Raleigh*
78 St. Louis University
78 University of Colorado – Boulder*
78 Virginia Tech*
84 Clark University (MA)
85 American University (DC)
85 Auburn University (AL)*
85 Iowa State University*
85 Marquette University (WI)
85 Univ. of California – Riverside*
85 University of Denver
85 Univ. of Missouri – Columbia*
85 University of Tennessee*
93 Howard University (DC)
93 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry*
93 University of Tulsa (OK)
93 University of Vermont*
97 Illinois Institute of Technology
97 SUNY – Stony Brook*
97 Texas Christian University
97 University of Arizona*
97 University of Kansas*
97 Univ. of Nebraska – Lincoln*
97 University of New Hampshire*
104 University of Alabama*
104 University of Dayton (OH)
104 Univ. of Massachusetts – Amherst*
104 University of San Diego
104 University of the Pacific (CA)
109 Drexel University (PA)
109 Florida State University*
109 Ohio University*
109 University of Missouri – Rolla*
109 University of Oklahoma*
109 Univ. of South Carolina – Columbia*
115 Loyola University Chicago
115 Northeastern University (MA)
115 University at Buffalo – SUNY*
115 University of Oregon*
115 University of San Francisco
120 Catholic University of America (DC)
120 Colorado State University*
120 University of Kentucky*
120 University of Utah*
120 Washington State University*

* denotes a public school
† New to America's Best Colleges this year.
‡ Appeared in a different category of schools last year. The school was reclassified by the Carnegie Foundation in 2004.
N/A means that the data were not provided by the school.