Top 20 U.S. colleges of 2013
U.S. News & World Report releases its annual list of the best U.S. colleges. Did your alma mater make the cut?
U.S. News & World Report has released its annual list of the best colleges, weighing factors such as tuition, enrollment, acceptance rate, freshman retention rate, graduation rate, class size and SAT/ACT percentiles.
U.S. News & World Report has released its annual list of the best colleges, weighing factors such as tuition, enrollment, acceptance rate, freshman retention rate, graduation rate, class size and SAT/ACT percentiles.
20. Emory University (Atlanta) -- Tuition and fees: $42,980 (2012-13); Enrollment: 7,441
17. (tie) University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.) -- Tuition and fees: $42,971 Enrollment: 8,452
17. (tie) Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.) -- Tuition and fees: $42,118; Enrollment: 6,817
17. (tie) Rice University (Houston) -- Tuition and fees: $37,292; Enrollment: 3,755
15. (tie) Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) -- Tuition and fees: $43,413; Enrollment: 14,167
15. (tie) Brown University (Providence, R.I.) -- Tuition and fees: $43,758; Enrollment: 6,380
14. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis) -- Tuition and fees: $43,705; Enrollment: 7,239
13. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) -- Tuition and fees: $43,930; Enrollment: 5,980
12. Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) -- Tuition and fees: $43,779; Enrollment: 8,475
10. (tie) Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.) -- Tuition and fees: $45,042; Enrollment: 4,194
10. (tie) California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.) -- Tuition and fees: $39,588; Enrollment: 978
8. (tie) University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) -- Tuition and fees: $43,738; Enrollment: 9,779
8. (tie) Duke University (Durham, N.C.) -- Tuition and fees: $43,623; Enrollment: 6,680
6. (tie) Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.) -- Tuition and fees: $41,787; Enrollment: 6,988
6. (tie) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) -- Tuition and fees: $42,050; Enrollment: 4,384
4. (tie) University of Chicago (Chicago) -- Tuition and fees: $44,574; Enrollment: 5,388
4. (tie) Columbia University (New York) -- Tuition and fees: $47,246; Enrollment: 6,027
3. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) -- Tuition and fees: $42,300; Enrollment: 5,349
1. (tie) Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) -- Tuition and fees: $38,650; Enrollment: 5,249
1. (tie) Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) -- Tuition and fees: $40,866; Enrollment: 6,657
