| Rank | College | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MIT | Private | MA |
| 2 | Stanford | Private | CA |
| 3 | Harvard | Private | MA |
| 4 | Yale | Private | CT |
| 5 | Princeton | Private | NJ |
| 6 | Rice | Private | TX |
| 7 | CIT | Private | CA |
| 8 | Duke | Private | NC |
| 9 | Brown | Private | RI |
| 10 | Dartmouth | Private | NH |
| 11 | UPENN | Private | PA |
| 12 | Columbia | Private | NY |
| 13 | Vanderbilt | Private | TN |
| 14 | Northwestern | Private | IL |
| 15 | WashU St. Louis | Private | MO |
| 16 | University of Chicago | Private | IL |
| 17 | Georgetown | Private | DC |
| 18 | Harvey Mudd | Private | CA |
| 19 | Notre Dame | Private | IN |
| 20 | Pomona College | Private | CA |
| 21 | Johns Hopkins | Private | MD |
| 22 | Carnegie Mellon | Private | PA |
| 23 | Cornell | Private | NY |
| 24 | UCLA | Public | CA |
| 25 | UMICH | Public | MI |
| 26 | Georgia Tech | Public | GA |
| 27 | University of Virginia | Public | VA |
| 28 | USC | Private | CA |
| 29 | Claremont McKenna | Private | CA |
| 30 | Bowdoin College | Private | ME |
| 31 | Swarthmore | Private | PA |
| 32 | Barnard | Private | NY |
| 33 | Davidson | Private | NC |
| 34 | Emory | Private | GA |
| 35 | Westpoint | Public | NY |
| 36 | Wellesley | Private | MA |
| 37 | Washington and Lee | Private | VA |
| 38 | Tufts | Private | MA |
| 39 | Boston College | Private | MA |
| 40 | Amherst | Private | MA |
| 41 | University of Florida | Public | FL |
| 42 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Public | NC |
| 43 | Williams | Private | MA |
| 44 | Middlebury | Private | VT |
| 45 | Northeastern | Private | MA |
| 46 | UT Austin | Public | TX |
| 47 | Boston University | Private | MA |
| 48 | UC Berkeley | Public | CA |
| 49 | Wake Forest | Private | NC |
| 50 | NYU | Private | NY |