The top 12 schools in each of the seven individual performance categories (See methods and data page for more information on the variables and weightings in each category).
1. Princeton University
2. Harvard University
3. Yale University
4. Vassar College
5. University of Virginia
6. Bryn Mawr College*
7. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8. Brown University
9. College of William & Mary*
10.Columbia University
11. Swarthmore College
12. University of Pennsylvania
1. Princeton University
2. Yale University
3. Stanford University
4. Harvard University
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. Amherst College
7. Williams College
8. Pomona College
9. Swarthmore College
10. California Institute of Technology
11. Olin College of Engineering
12. University of Notre Dame
1. Johns Hopkins University
2. University of Chicago
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. Stanford University
5. Duke University
6. Harvard University
7. Yale University
8. Columbia University
9. California Institute of Technology
10. Dartmouth College
11. Rice University
12. Princeton University
1. California Institute of Technology
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. University of Chicago
4. Claremont McKenna College*
5. University of Virginia
6. Johns Hopkins University
7. Carnegie Mellon University
8. Duke University
9. Purdue University*
10. Rice University
11. Williams College
12. Bowdoin College
1. Princeton University
2. California Institute of Technology
3. Stanford University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Swarthmore College
6. CUNY Baruch College*
7. Olin College of Engineering
8. Yale University
9. University of Florida*
10. Harvard University
11. Harvey Mudd College
12. Williams College
1. Thomas Aquinas College*
2. Webb Institute*
3. Wabash College*
4. Pomona College
5. Olin College of Engineering
6. Harvard University
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8. Washington Univ. in St. Louis
9. Principia College*
10. Bowdoin College
11. Stanford University
12. Rice University
1. Stanford University
2. University of Texas-Austin*
3. University of Virginia
3. Emory University
3. Middlebury College*
6. University of Arkansas*
6. University of Florida*
6. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6. Univ. of California-Los Angeles
10. Univ. of Southern California*
10. Adams State University*
12. Univ. of California-Berkeley
*denotes a category elite school that did not make the overall elite 35 list. See Methods and Data page for additional information on categories and variables and the data sources used. Photo credit: Kenyon College - Ransom Hall By Cbc717 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59922789
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