- Best Colleges 2023
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Top-Rated Colleges
Introducing 2023-2024’s 5-star colleges:
- Amherst College
- Berea College
- Brown University
- California Institute of Technology
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- Georgetown University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Maritime Academy
- Northwestern University
- Princeton University
- Rice University
- Stanford University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Chicago
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Virginia
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Williams College
- Yale University
- Popular Rankings
- Money's Methodology
Costs
- Est. full price 2023-2024
- $25,100
- % of students who get any grants
- 63%
- Est. price for students who receive aid
- $9,400
- Average price for low-income students
- $3,900
Admissions
- Acceptance rate
- 78%
- GPA
- 3.74
- Median SAT/ACT score
- 1110/23
- SAT/ACT required?
- Yes
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 23,700
Financial Aid
- % of students with need who get grants
- 85%
- % of need met
- 60%
- % of students who get merit grants
- 5%
- Average merit grant
- $1,710
Student Success
- Graduation rate
- 58%
- Average time to a degree
- 4.4 years
- Median student debt
- $17,240
- Early career earnings
- $53,600
- % earning more than a high school grad
- 69%
Notes: Prices reflect in-state charges for public universities. Students who get merit grants are full-time undergraduates who had no financial need and were awarded grants. Graduation rate measures degree completion within six years for both transfer students and first-time students. Early career earnings are the median earnings for both graduates and non-completers, 10 years after they first enrolled.
Sources: U.S. Department of Education, Peterson’s, Money/Witlytic calculations.
