Best Colleges 2023

Best Colleges in the Northeast

Many of the country’s oldest — and most recognizable — colleges are in the Northeast. Here are the best in the region.
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College Name
Acceptance Rate
Est. Full Price 2023-24
Est. Price with Average Grant
Graduation Rate

Amherst College

Amherst, MA

9% $83,900 $20,200 95%

Babson College

Wellesley, MA

25% $80,000 $31,200 93%

Barnard College

New York, NY

11% $84,600 $30,400 93%

Bates College

Lewiston, ME

17% $81,600 $28,100 91%

Bentley University

Waltham, MA

61% $79,200 $44,700 90%

Binghamton University

Vestal, NY

44% $30,900 $19,200 81%

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA

19% $84,500 $32,300 94%

Boston University

Boston, MA

19% $83,400 $27,700 88%

Bowdoin College

Brunswick, ME

9% $80,000 $28,700 95%

Brown University

Providence, RI

6% $86,500 $26,800 95%

Bucknell University

Lewisburg, PA

35% $81,500 $40,900 91%

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

14% $81,200 $40,100 78%

Clarkson University

Potsdam, NY

75% $78,000 $33,700 79%

Colby College

Waterville, ME

9% $82,400 $19,200 89%

Colgate University

Hamilton, NY

17% $84,000 $26,300 91%

College of the Holy Cross

Worcester, MA

43% $78,100 $31,300 90%

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY

4% $86,500 $13,300 93%

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

New York, NY

15% $72,000 $22,300 91%

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

9% $84,100 $26,000 95%

CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College

New York, NY

51% $35,700 $4,100 71%

CUNY Hunter College

New York, NY

46% $26,100 $4,900 57%

CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice

New York, NY

45% $33,300 $5,400 58%

CUNY Lehman College

Bronx, NY

58% $32,500 $3,500 61%

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH

6% $85,400 $25,800 94%

Dickinson College

Carlisle, PA

48% $80,900 $22,400 83%

Franklin & Marshall College

Lancaster, PA

38% $84,500 $28,200 85%

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, PA

56% $80,000 $38,400 80%

Hamilton College

Clinton, NY

14% $80,400 $28,700 93%

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

4% $81,800 $14,900 97%

Haverford College

Haverford, PA

18% $85,500 $26,200 89%

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

8% $81,700 $22,200 93%

Lafayette College

Easton, PA

41% $79,600 $41,500 88%

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, PA

46% $78,500 $33,800 90%

Loyola University Maryland

Baltimore, MD

84% $76,000 $35,300 82%

Maine Maritime Academy

Castine, ME

58% $30,700 $23,000 71%

Manhattan College

Riverdale, NY

75% $71,700 $29,600 72%

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

4% $80,700 $33,200 95%

Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Buzzards Bay, MA

90% $31,300 $20,800 79%

Messiah University

Mechanicsburg, PA

77% $55,800 $25,600 77%

Middlebury College

Middlebury, VT

13% $82,600 $28,900 93%

Muhlenberg College

Allentown, PA

68% $75,300 $33,100 82%

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Newark, NJ

69% $41,200 $18,100 82%

Northeastern University

Boston, MA

18% $82,000 $41,700 88%

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

4% $82,300 $22,400 98%

Providence College

Providence, RI

58% $78,000 $42,400 87%

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, NY

53% $81,500 $43,000 86%

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

New Brunswick, NJ

68% $35,800 $12,700 81%

Saint Joseph's University

Philadelphia, PA

83% $68,200 $35,800 80%

Salve Regina University

Newport, RI

73% $68,300 $39,400 78%

Simmons University

Boston, MA

84% $65,800 $20,400 82%

Skidmore College

Saratoga Springs, NY

31% $83,100 $33,800 89%

St. Lawrence University

Canton, NY

57% $81,100 $34,000 84%

Stevens Institute of Technology

Hoboken, NJ

53% $79,400 $43,800 85%

Stonehill College

Easton, MA

72% $70,600 $33,700 83%

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

48% $30,700 $17,600 75%

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Syracuse, NY

65% $30,800 $23,800 73%

SUNY Maritime College

Throggs Neck, NY

74% $29,400 $21,200 74%

SUNY Oneonta

Oneonta, NY

70% $28,100 $18,900 75%

SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Utica, NY

77% $26,600 $11,000 67%

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, PA

8% $79,400 $21,200 94%

The College of New Jersey

Ewing, NJ

62% $37,600 $14,200 85%

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

78% $67,100 $26,000 76%

Towson University

Towson, MD

88% $29,500 $11,900 73%

Trinity College

Hartford, CT

38% $83,600 $31,900 83%

Tufts University

Medford, MA

11% $85,600 $33,900 94%

University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT

56% $37,500 $23,800 83%

University of Delaware

Newark, DE

72% $33,100 $20,500 78%

University of Maryland-Baltimore County

Baltimore, MD

81% $31,100 $7,400 71%

University of Maryland-College Park

College Park, MD

52% $29,400 $18,400 82%

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Amherst, MA

66% $34,000 $18,500 80%

University of New Hampshire

Durham, NH

87% $36,700 $24,000 74%

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

6% $87,300 $15,600 96%

University of Scranton

Scranton, PA

80% $71,000 $38,500 83%

Villanova University

Villanova, PA

25% $81,500 $35,500 90%

Washington & Jefferson College

Washington, PA

84% $68,300 $29,100 74%

Wellesley College

Wellesley, MA

16% $85,000 $23,400 92%

Wesleyan University

Middletown, CT

19% $86,200 $22,000 92%

Williams College

Williamstown, MA

9% $81,800 $15,500 95%

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester, MA

60% $77,800 $51,700 89%

Yale University

New Haven, CT

5% $86,100 $22,100 97%
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