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Best Colleges 2009

National Universities Rankings

Schools in the National Universities category, such as Yale and UCLA, offer a full range of undergraduate majors, master's, and doctoral degrees. These colleges also are committed to producing groundbreaking research.
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1 Harvard University
  • Cambridge, MA
  • Score 100
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,173 2007 Total enrollment: 19,257 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 9.2 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
2 Princeton University
  • Princeton, NJ
  • Score 99
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $34,290 2007 Total enrollment: 7,334 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 9.7 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
3 Yale University
  • New Haven, CT
  • Score 98
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $35,300 2007 Total enrollment: 11,454 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 9.9 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Cambridge, MA
  • Score 94
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,390 2007 Total enrollment: 10,220 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 12.5 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
4 Stanford University
  • Stanford, CA
  • Score 94
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,030 2007 Total enrollment: 19,782 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 10.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
6 California Institute of Technology
  • Pasadena, CA
  • Score 93
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $34,437 2007 Total enrollment: 2,133 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 16.9 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
6 University of Pennsylvania
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Score 93
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,526 2007 Total enrollment: 18,916 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 16.0 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
8 Columbia University
  • New York, NY
  • Score 90
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $39,326 2007 Total enrollment: 22,655 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 10.6 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
8 Duke University
  • Durham, NC
  • Score 90
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,525 2007 Total enrollment: 13,598 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 23.0 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
8 University of Chicago
  • Chicago, IL
  • Score 90
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,632 2007 Total enrollment: 12,336 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.7 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
11 Dartmouth College
  • Hanover, NH
  • Score 89
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,915 2007 Total enrollment: 5,849 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 15.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
12 Northwestern University
  • Evanston, IL
  • Score 87
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,125 2007 Total enrollment: 18,028 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 26.8 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
12 Washington University in St. Louis
  • St. Louis, MO
  • Score 87
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,248 2007 Total enrollment: 13,382 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 17.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
14 Cornell University
  • Ithaca, NY
  • Score 86
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,504 2007 Total enrollment: 19,800 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 21.4 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
15 Johns Hopkins University
  • Baltimore, MD
  • Score 85
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,700 2007 Total enrollment: 19,737 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 24.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
16 Brown University
  • Providence, RI
  • Score 84
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,718 2007 Total enrollment: 8,167 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 14.0 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
17 Rice University
  • Houston, TX
  • Score 80
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $28,996 2007 Total enrollment: 5,243 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 25.1 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
18 Emory University
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Score 79
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,336 2007 Total enrollment: 12,570 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.2 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
18 University of Notre Dame
  • Notre Dame, IN
  • Score 79
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $36,847 2007 Total enrollment: 11,733 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 24.5 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
18 Vanderbilt University
  • Nashville, TN
  • Score 79
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $37,005 2007 Total enrollment: 11,847 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 32.8 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
21 University of California--Berkeley
  • Berkeley, CA
  • Score 77
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 In-state: $8,932; Out-of-state: $29,540 2007 Total enrollment: 34,953 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 23.3 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
22 Carnegie Mellon University
  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • Score 75
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $38,844 2007 Total enrollment: 10,493 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.0 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
23 Georgetown University
  • Washington, DC
  • Score 74
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $38,122 2007 Total enrollment: 14,826 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 20.8 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
23 University of Virginia
  • Charlottesville, VA
  • Score 74
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2008-2009 In-state: $9,300; Out-of-state: $29,600 2007 Total enrollment: 24,257 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 35.2 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
25 University of California--Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Score 73
  • Tier 1
Costs: 2007-2008 In-state: $7,034; Out-of-state: $26,102 2007 Total enrollment: 38,896 Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 23.6 % Purchase Premium Online Edition to access full data.
 

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