| Top National
Universities |
Top
Liberal Arts Colleges |
| Rank |
Name |
Rank |
Name |
| 1 |
Harvard University (MA) |
1 |
Williams College (MA) |
| |
Princeton University (NJ) |
2 |
Amherst College (MA) |
| 3 |
Yale University (CT) |
3 |
Swarthmore College (PA) |
| 4 |
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology |
4 |
Carleton College (MN) |
| 5 |
California Institute of Technology |
|
Pomona College (CA) |
| |
Duke University (NC) |
|
Wellesley College (MA) |
| |
Stanford University (CA) |
7 |
Davidson College (NC) |
| |
University of Pennsylvania |
|
Middlebury College (VT) |
| 9 |
Darmouth College (NH) |
9 |
Haverford College (PA) |
| |
Washington University in St. Louis |
10 |
Bowdoin College (ME) |
| 11 |
Columbia University (NY) |
11 |
Wesleyan University (CT) |
| |
Northwestern University (IL) |
12 |
Claremont McKenna College (CA) |
| 13 |
University of Chicago |
|
Washington and Lee University (VA) |
| 14 |
Cornell University (NY) |
14 |
Vassar College (NY) |
| |
Johns Hopkins University (MD) |
15 |
Grinnell College (IA) |
| 16 |
Rice University |
|
Smith College (MA) |
| 17 |
Brown Unversity (RI) |
17 |
Bryn Mawr College (PA) |
| 18 |
Emory University (GA) |
|
Colby College (ME) |
| 19 |
University of Notre Dame (IN) |
|
Colgate University (NY) |
| |
Vanderbilt University (TN) |
|
Harvey Mudd College (CA) |
| 21 |
University of California Berkeley |
21 |
Hamilton College (NY) |
| |
University of Virginia |
22 |
Trinity College (CT) |
| 23 |
Carnegie Mellon University (PA) |
23 |
Bates College (ME) |
| |
Georgetown University (DC) |
24 |
Oberlin College (OH) |
| 25 |
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
25 |
Macalester College (MN) |
| 26 |
University of California Los Angeles |
|
Mount Holyoke College (MA) |
| 27 |
Tufts University (MA) |
27 |
Bucknell University (PA) |
| 28 |
Wake Forest University (NC) |
|
College of the Holy Cross (MA) |
| 29 |
University of North California - Chapel Hill |
|
Colorado College |
| 30 |
University of Southern California |
30 |
Bard College (NY) |
| 31 |
College of William and Mary (VA) |
|
Kenyon College (OH) |
| 32 |
Brandeis University (MA) |
|
Lafayette College (PA) |
| |
University of California San Diego |
33 |
University of the South (TN) |
| |
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
34 |
Connecticut College |
| 35 |
New York University |
|
Scripps College (CA) |
| Source: USNews.Com |
