America's Top Colleges

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Values calculated July 2013
RankNameStateCostTotal Student Population
1

Stanford University

California$58,84619,945
2

Pomona College

California$57,0141,586
3

Princeton University

New Jersey$54,7807,813
4

Yale University

Connecticut$59,32011,875
5

Columbia University

New York$61,54026,050
6

Swarthmore College

Pennsylvania$58,4811,545
7

United States Military Academy

New YorkN/A4,624
8

Harvard University

Massachusetts$57,05027,392
9

Williams College

Massachusetts$59,4122,126
10

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts$57,01010,894
11

University of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania$59,60024,832
12

Brown University

Rhode Island$58,1408,768
13

Amherst College

Massachusetts$59,0601,791
14

University of Chicago

Illinois$62,42514,979
15

Duke University

North Carolina$59,52815,427
16

Dartmouth College

New Hampshire$61,3986,144
17

Northwestern University

Illinois$60,84020,959
18

California Institute of Technology

California$56,3822,231
19

Cornell University

New York$59,59121,131
20

Bowdoin College

Maine$58,2001,778
21

Washington and Lee University

Virginia$56,6162,193
22

University of California, Berkeley

California$55,76636,137
23

Wellesley College

Massachusetts$57,1642,502
24

University of Notre Dame

Indiana$57,80512,004
25

Tufts University

Massachusetts$58,80010,777
26

Georgetown University

District of Columbia$59,90017,130
27

Vassar College

New York$59,3202,386
28

United States Naval Academy

MarylandN/A4,576
29

University of Virginia

Virginia$51,33724,297
30

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Michigan$51,97642,716
31

United States Air Force Academy

ColoradoN/A4,413
32

Davidson College

North Carolina$54,9301,755
33

Rice University

Texas$52,2426,224
34

University of California, Los Angeles

California$54,81039,271
35

Boston College

Massachusetts$58,68614,754
36

Colgate University

New York$57,7452,964
37

Vanderbilt University

Tennessee$59,89012,836
38

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

North Carolina$43,84729,137
39

Wesleyan University

Connecticut$61,1673,202
40

Bryn Mawr College

Pennsylvania$57,5861,785
41

Middlebury College

Vermont$59,2002,507
42

Carnegie Mellon University

Pennsylvania$59,71011,531
43

Haverford College

Pennsylvania$59,6541,198
44

College of William and Mary

Virginia$49,7128,200
45

Carleton College

Minnesota$58,2752,018
46

Johns Hopkins University

Maryland$58,98020,996
47

Hamilton College

New York$57,4201,864
48

Lafayette College

Pennsylvania$57,6882,478
49

Colby College

Maine$57,3001,815
50

Oberlin College

Ohio$59,6832,978
51

Brandeis University

Massachusetts$59,0505,828
52

Harvey Mudd College

California$60,613784
53

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Illinois$42,70644,407
54

Barnard College

New York$59,8242,438
55

University of Washington

Washington$43,62142,444
56

New York University

New York$61,40743,911
57

Washington University in Saint Louis

Missouri$60,34513,908
58

Union College

New York$58,1002,220
59

Smith College

Massachusetts$57,9133,162
60

Wake Forest University

North Carolina$58,2607,351
61

University of Rochester

New York$59,15610,290
62

Whitman College

Washington$54,8651,596
63

University of Southern California

California$59,88338,010
64

Grinnell College

Iowa$53,3181,693
65

Reed College

Oregon$57,7701,474
66

University of Texas, Austin

Texas$48,73051,112
67

Cooper Union

New York$53,895988
68

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Wisconsin$40,01241,946
69

Kenyon College

Ohio$57,9101,658
70

Lehigh University

Pennsylvania$55,5157,055
71

College of the Holy Cross

Massachusetts$56,7302,905
72

Santa Clara University

California$57,6818,800
73

University of Maryland, College Park

Maryland$41,72537,631
74

University of Florida

Florida$42,29049,589
75

Brigham Young University

Utah$17,47034,101
76

Colorado College

Colorado$54,3502,043
77

George Washington University

District of Columbia$58,98525,260
78

Trinity College

Connecticut$59,8652,393
79

Villanova University

Pennsylvania$56,58310,661
80

Centre College

Kentucky$46,4001,309
81

Southern Methodist University

Texas$58,68910,982
82

Macalester College

Minnesota$55,3932,005
83

Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia$41,55820,941
84

Mount Holyoke College

Massachusetts$55,4962,362
85

Boston University

Massachusetts$59,10032,439
86

Franklin and Marshall College

Pennsylvania$58,5802,363
87

Virginia Military Institute

Virginia$44,6941,605
88

University of Richmond

Virginia$56,0104,348
89

Case Western Reserve University

Ohio$56,0269,636
90

University of Georgia

Georgia$39,46034,816
91

Sewanee—University of the South

Tennessee$46,5301,557
92

DePauw University

Indiana$51,0502,352
93

Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Pennsylvania$44,15645,628
94

United States Coast Guard Academy

ConnecticutN/A1,045
95

Scripps College

California$58,888985
96

University of California, Santa Barbara

California$54,94521,685
97

Indiana University, Bloomington

Indiana$44,56642,731
98

Wheaton College

Illinois$41,4963,069
99

University of California, Davis

California$55,04631,732
100

Pepperdine University

California$58,7727,539