US NEWS & WORLD REPORT BEST COLLEGES RANKINGS FOR 2010

Schools in the National Universities category, such as Yale and UCLA, offer a full range of undergraduate majors, master's, and doctoral degrees. These colleges also are committed to producing groundbreaking research.


1 Harvard University Cambridge, MA
100 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $37,012 19,230 7.9%
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1 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
100 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $35,340 7,497 9.9%
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3 Yale University New Haven, CT
98 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $36,500 11,446 8.6%
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4 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
93 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $34,584 2,126 17.4%
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4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
93 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $37,782 10,299 11.9%
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4 Stanford University Stanford, CA
93 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $37,881 17,833 9.5%
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4 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
93 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,970 19,018 16.9%
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8 Columbia University New York, NY
91 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $41,316 23,196 10.0%
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8 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
91 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,381 12,386 27.9%
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10 Duke University Durham, NC
90 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,975 14,060 22.4%
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11 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
89 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,679 5,848 13.5%
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12 Northwestern University Evanston, IL
87 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,461 18,431 26.2%
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12 Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO
87 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,864 13,338 21.7%
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14 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
86 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,150 19,858 25.4%
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15 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
85 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $37,954 20,273 20.7%
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16 Brown University Providence, RI
84 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,848 8,318 13.7%
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17 Emory University Atlanta, GA
80 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,036 12,755 26.6%
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17 Rice University Houston, TX
80 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $31,248 5,456 23.0%
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17 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
80 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,579 12,093 25.3%
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20 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
78 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $38,477 11,731 26.7%
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21 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA
76 2009-2010 In-state: $8,352; Out-of-state: $30,022 35,409 21.6%
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22 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
75 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,833 11,064 37.9%
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23 Georgetown University Washington, DC
74 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $39,212 15,318 18.8%
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24 University of California--Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
73 2009-2010 In-state: $8,228; Out-of-state: $29,897 39,650 22.8%
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24 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
73 2009-2010 In-state: $9,870; Out-of-state: $31,870 24,541 36.7%

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