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Locations of 35 elite schools in the United States. Note: Williams and Wellesley are unlabeled because of spacing constraints

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. Amherst College

6. Olin College of Engineering 

7. Wellesley College

8. Bowdoin College

9. Harvey Mudd College

10. Vassar College

11. Washington and Lee University

12. Claremont McKenna College

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. Rice University

9. Duke University

10. Washington University in St. Louis

11. Brown University

12. Vanderbilt University

13. University of Notre Dame

14. Carnegie Mellon University

15. Dartmouth College

16. Northwestern University

17. Columbia University

Large (10000+ students)

1. University of Virginia

2. University of Pennsylvania

3. Cornell University

4. Univ. of California-Berkeley

5. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

6. UCLA


Campus setting

Rural and Town

1. Williams College

2. Dartmouth College 

3. Bowdoin College

4. Washington and Lee University

Suburban

1. Stanford University

2. Swarthmore College

3. Washington Univ. in St. Louis

4. Pomona College

5. University of Virginia 

6. University of Notre Dame

7. Olin College of Engineering

8. Wellesley College

9. Harvey Mudd College

10. Vassar College

11. Claremont McKenna 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. Rice University

9. Duke University

10. Brown University

11. Vanderbilt University

12. Carnegie Mellon Univ.

13. Amherst College

14. Univ. of Pennsylvania

15. Northwestern University

16. Columbia Univ.

17. Cornell University

18. Univ. of California-Berkeley

19. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

20. UCLA


Region

Far West

1, California Institute of Technology

2,  Stanford University

3. Pomona College

4. Harvey Mudd College

5. University of California-Berkeley

6. UCLA

7. Claremont McKenna College

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 University

Mideast

1. Princeton University

2. Johns Hopkins University

3. Swarthmore College

4. Carnegie Mellon University

5. Univ. of Pennsylvania

6. Columbia 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. Amherst College

7. Olin College of Engineering

8. Wellesley College

9. Dartmouth College

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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