Finance Rankings

Rankings Overall College Data
Save Rank School Tuition Total enrollment Fall 2011 acceptance rate Average freshman retention rate 6-year graduation rate Classes with under 20 students SAT/ACT 25th-75th percentile
#1 University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

$43,738 19,919 12.4% 98% 96
#9 University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

in-state: $12,006, out-of-state: $38,018 24,297 33.3% 97% 94
#4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

$42,050 10,894 9.7% 98% 93
#3 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

N/A 36,142 21.6% 97% 90
#5 University of Michigan–​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

in-state: $13,437, out-of-state: $39,109 42,716 40.6% 96% 90
#7 University of North Carolina–​Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

in-state: $7,694, out-of-state: $28,446 29,137 31.4% 97% 90
#8 Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

$45,124 12,058 30.4% 96% 87
#2 New York University

New York, NY

N/A 43,911 32.7% 92% 86
#6 University of Texas–​Austin

Austin, TX

in-state: $9,792, out-of-state: $33,060 51,112 46.6% 92% 81
#10 Indiana University–​Bloomington

Bloomington, IN

in-state: $10,033, out-of-state: $31,483 42,731 72.3% 90% 72

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