Best Colleges 2010

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.

Score	Costs	2008 Total enrollment	Fall 2008 Acceptance rate
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%

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