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Elite Schools by Enrollment Size, Campus Setting, and Region

Undergraduate enrollment size

Small (<3000 students)

1. California Institute of Technology

2. Williams College

3. Swarthmore College

4. Pomona College

5. Wellesley College

6. Amherst College

7. Olin College of Engineering 

8. Harvey Mudd College

9.  Bowdoin College

10. Vassar College

11. Washington and Lee Univ.

Medium (3000-9999 students)

1. Princeton University 

2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3. Stanford University

4. Yale University

5. Harvard University

6. University of Chicago

7. Johns Hopkins University

8. Duke University

9. Rice University

10. Brown University

11. Washington University in St. Louis

12. Columbia University

13. Dartmouth College

14. University of Notre Dame

15. Vanderbilt University

16. Northwestern University

17. Carnegie Mellon University

Large (10000+ students)

1. University of Pennsylvania

2. University of Virginia

3. Univ. of California-Berkeley

4. Cornell University

5. Univ. of California-Los Angeles 

6. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

7. Univ. of Florida


Campus setting

Rural and Town

1. Williams College

2. Dartmouth College 

3. Bowdoin College

4. Washington and Lee Univ.

Suburban

1. Stanford University

2. Swarthmore College

3. Washington Univ. in St. Louis

4. Pomona College

5. University of Notre Dame

6. University of Virginia

7. Wellesley College

8. Olin College of Engineering 

9. Harvey Mudd College

10. Vassar College

City

1. Princeton University

2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3. Caltech

4. Yale University

5. Harvard University

6. University  of Chicago

7. Johns Hopkins University

8. Duke University

9. Rice University

10. Brown University

11. Univ. of Pennsylvania

12. Columbia Univ.

13. Vanderbilt University

14. Northwestern University

15. Carnegie Mellon Univ.

16. Amherst College

17. UCal-Berkeley

18. Cornell University

19. UCLA 

20. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

21 Univ. of Florida


Region

Far West

1, California Institute of Technology

2, Stanford University

3. Pomona College

4. University of California-Berkeley

5. Harvey Mudd College

6. UCLA

Southwest

1. Rice University

Plains

1. Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Great Lakes

1. University of Chicago

2. University of Notre Dame

3. Northwestern University

Southeast

1. Duke University

2. Vanderbilt University

3. University of Virginia

4. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

5. Washington and Lee Univ.

6. University of Florida

Mideast

1. Princeton University

2. Johns Hopkins University

3. Swarthmore College

4. Univ. of Pennsylvania

5. Columbia University

6. Carnegie Mellon University

7. Cornell University

8. Vassar College

New England

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2. Yale University

3. Harvard University

4. Williams College

5. Brown University

6. Dartmouth College

7. Wellesley College

8. Amherst College

9. Olin College of Engineering

10. Bowdoin College

Data on school size, setting, and region obtained from the National Center for Education Statistics College Navigator website https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/.and the US Department of Education's College Scorecard website https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

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