1. Princeton University (NJ) 

2. Harvard University (MA) 

3. Yale University(CT)  
 
4. Stanford University(CA)  
 
5. University of Pennsylvania  
 
5. California Institute of Technology 
 
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
 
8. Duke University(NC) 
 
9. Columbia University(NY)  
 
9. University of Chicago  
 
11. Dartmouth College(NH) 
 
12. Washington University in St. Louis 
 
12. Cornell University(NY) 
 
14. Brown University(RI) 
 
14. Northwestern University(IL) 
 
14. Johns Hopkins University(MD) 
 
17. Rice University(TX) 
 
17. Emory University(GA) 
 
19. Vanderbilt University(TN) 
 
19. University of Notre Dame(IN) 
 
21. University of California—Berkeley
 
22. Carnegie Mellon University(PA) 
 
23. University of Virginia
 
23. Georgetown University(DC) 

25. University of California—Los Angeles
 
25. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
 
27. University of Southern California 
 
28. University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
 
28. Tufts University(MA) 
 
30. Wake Forest University(NC) 
 
31. Lehigh University(PA) 
 
31. Brandeis University(MA) 
 
33. College of William and Mary(VA)
 
34. New York University 
 
35. University of Rochester(NY) 
 
35. Georgia Institute of Technology
 
35. Boston College 
 
38. University of Wisconsin—Madison
 
38. University of California—San Diego
 
38. University of Illinois—Urbana - Champaign
 
41. Case Western Reserve University(OH) 
 
42. University of Washington
 
42. University of California—Davis
 
44. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute(NY) 
 
44. University of Texas—Austin
 
44. University of California—Santa Barbara
 
44. University of California—Irvine
 
48. Pennsylvania State University—University Park
 
49. University of Florida
 
50. Syracuse University(NY) 
 
50. Tulane University(LA)