Top 100 Best Colleges in America 2019 Edition

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These Are the Top 100 Best Colleges in America 2019 Edition

College is a great investment—if you choose the right school. MONEY analyzed graduation rates, tuition charges, family borrowing, and alumni earnings (plus 22 other data points) to find the country’s top values. Find your fit with rankings that combine educational quality, affordability, and alumni success.

Rank College Name	Median SAT/ACT score	Est. price 2018-19 without aid	Est. price 2018-19 with avg. grant	% with need who get grants	Average student debt	Early career earnings
1 Princeton University Princeton, NJ	1500/34	$67,700	$19,000	100%	$7,500	$69,800
2 University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	1310/30	$32,900	$15,900	95%	$18,500	$58,600
3 University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	1200/27	$34,700	$14,800	96%	$17,000	$54,900
4 University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	1320/31	$34,700	$15,300	96%	$16,300	$57,500
5 Stanford University Stanford, CA	1480/33	$70,800	$17,900	98%	$12,500	$73,300
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	1530/34	$69,000	$23,200	96%	$17,300	$81,500
7 University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	1410/33	$37,900	$18,400	99%	$14,200	$65,400
8 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College New York, NY	1240/NA	$32,500	$10,200	89%	$10,800	$54,500
9 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	1410/31	$30,200	$17,300	82%	$20,100	$59,300
10 University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	1350/31	$33,000	$17,100	84%	$19,500	$59,500
11 University of California-Davis Davis, CA	1190/28	$36,600	$17,200	96%	$14,700	$56,700
12 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	1560/35	$70,600	$28,800	100%	$14,400	$78,800
13 Rice University Houston, TX	1490/34	$64,700	$23,700	98%	$10,200	$65,700
14 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	1480/34	$73,400	$24,600	99%	$20,600	$68,100
15 Yale University New Haven, CT	1510/34	$73,000	$19,700	100%	$13,500	$66,800
16 Harvard University Cambridge, MA	1520/34	$71,300	$17,400	100%	$6,500	$69,200
17 Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	1190/27	$29,200	$16,600	82%	$18,800	$57,200
18 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	1510/34	$69,000	$24,900	92%	$14,000	$61,100
19 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA	1410/32	$29,500	$14,300	87%	$24,000	$68,100
19 University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	1250/29	$27,200	$10,800	77%	$15,000	$57,300
21 Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buzzards Bay, MA	1050/23	$26,300	$15,100	71%	$27,000	$63,100
22 California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	1050/23	$24,600	$10,600	80%	$15,000	$49,200
23 University of Florida Gainesville, FL	1280/29	$21,600	$15,800	65%	$15,800	$52,200
24 Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA	1390/32	$67,500	$25,600	100%	$21,500	$59,700
25 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	1380/29	$30,800	$17,900	64%	$20,500	$58,600
26 SUNY at Binghamton Vestal, NY	1320/30	$26,700	$17,800	83%	$19,500	$56,400
27 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	1280/29	$26,100	$17,200	80%	$22,300	$56,900
28 University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	1320/31	$27,100	$16,900	78%	$19,500	$57,600
29 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA	1210/NA	$26,900	$18,500	71%	$24,000	$58,600
30 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	1450/34	$71,100	$28,700	97%	$21,500	$62,500
31 North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC	1260/29	$24,300	$14,000	90%	$20,800	$53,800
32 University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA	1070/24	$35,500	$13,800	96%	$19,100	$51,600
33 Duke University Durham, NC	1480/33	$73,500	$21,400	96%	$7,500	$65,300
34 Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	1260/29	$26,100	$14,600	84%	$19,000	$54,300
35 The College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ	1200/28	$35,300	$24,100	39%	$23,300	$54,400
36 Williams College Williamstown, MA	1440/33	$72,300	$19,500	100%	$14,600	$62,000
37 University of Chicago Chicago, IL	1530/34	$77,600	$33,400	98%	$14,500	$58,100
38 University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	1260/30	$37,000	$16,300	93%	$16,500	$54,900
39 James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA	1130/25	$26,700	$17,500	51%	$20,900	$53,400
40 Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	1200/28	$23,400	$12,600	64%	$21,500	$58,000
41 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	1130/27	$29,200	$16,100	74%	$25,500	$51,800
42 College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA	1290/29	$67,800	$29,000	82%	$27,500	$56,000
42 Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA	1420/32	$70,500	$21,100	100%	$19,500	$60,000
44 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	1460/32	$73,600	$22,700	96%	$13,500	$66,300
45 California State University-Dominguez Hills Carson, CA	850/17	$22,900	$3,500	86%	$14,000	$46,200
46 Georgetown University Washington, DC	1420/32	$73,300	$28,600	88%	$15,500	$61,400
47 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona, CA	1030/24	$26,700	$13,500	79%	$19,000	$53,600
48 University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	1310/29	$26,300	$17,000	77%	$22,300	$53,400
49 California State University-Stanislaus Turlock, CA	910/19	$21,000	$8,100	87%	$15,000	$47,000
50 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	1230/29	$31,800	$20,500	72%	$21,500	$55,400
51 California State University-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	880/18	$25,400	$4,200	95%	$12,900	$47,100
52 Bates College Lewiston, ME	NA/NA	$70,500	$25,800	100%	$14,500	$55,800
53 Union College Schenectady, NY	NA/NA	$70,300	$41,500	94%	$27,000	$58,500
54 Barnard College New York, NY	1370/31	$73,000	$24,500	99%	$17,800	$53,500
55 Colgate University Hamilton, NY	1380/32	$71,500	$24,100	99%	$16,100	$61,400
56 Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	1500/34	$76,000	$24,700	99%	$21,500	$66,000
57 College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA	1360/31	$38,300	$18,000	86%	$19,500	$54,400
58 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	1320/31	$26,200	$10,800	88%	$16,500	$51,200
59 Brown University Providence, RI	1470/33	$72,800	$27,100	94%	$15,000	$63,000
60 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA	1360/32	$72,300	$29,200	88%	$19,000	$59,200
61 San Jose State University San Jose, CA	1040/23	$28,800	$14,800	93%	$15,000	$58,500
62 California State University-Chico Chico, CA	990/22	$25,000	$14,700	78%	$17,000	$52,700
63 Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VA	1150/26	$31,300	$17,400	81%	$25,000	$62,200
64 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA	1260/29	$27,800	$19,900	88%	$18,700	$61,100
65 Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	1230/NA	$32,300	$16,800	70%	$22,200	$55,800
66 California State University-Fresno Fresno, CA	910/19	$20,900	$6,600	88%	$15,000	$47,800
67 California State University-San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA	880/18	$24,800	$6,900	89%	$16,500	$45,500
68 University of Delaware Newark, DE	1170/26	$28,500	$17,100	83%	$24,200	$54,300
69 Babson College Wellesley, MA	1270/29	$70,100	$29,500	95%	$26,000	$66,600
70 Amherst College Amherst, MA	1460/33	$73,000	$20,500	100%	$13,000	$60,200
71 Pomona College Claremont, CA	1440/33	$71,400	$19,500	100%	$11,000	$57,500
72 Clemson University Clemson, SC	1250/29	$30,300	$19,100	82%	$21,500	$54,300
73 Davidson College Davidson, NC	1350/31	$68,300	$30,000	98%	$17,000	$53,100
74 Haverford College Haverford, PA	1420/33	$73,300	$22,700	100%	$13,000	$54,700
75 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY	1170/25	$28,000	$19,400	99%	$19,800	$49,700
76 Hamilton College Clinton, NY	1390/32	$69,300	$26,200	100%	$15,800	$58,600
77 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	1320/29	$28,100	$17,400	84%	$20,200	$53,400
78 Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME	NA/NA	$69,700	$26,700	100%	$18,800	$55,500
79 San Diego State University San Diego, CA	1110/26	$28,900	$15,400	80%	$15,300	$51,100
80 Saint Johns University Collegeville, MN	1040/25	$57,200	$27,500	98%	$27,000	$54,700
81 CUNY Queens College Queens, NY	1090/NA	$29,000	$9,300	86%	$11,000	$48,700
82 Lafayette College Easton, PA	1300/29	$70,300	$28,100	94%	$26,000	$61,500
83 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY	1420/32	$72,100	$23,600	99%	$15,800	$52,100
84 California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA	1020/22	$28,000	$8,800	76%	$15,000	$47,400
85 Bentley University Waltham, MA	1180/28	$67,800	$38,200	98%	$26,500	$62,000
86 Northwestern University Evanston, IL	1480/33	$74,700	$31,500	98%	$19,400	$59,500
87 University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	1230/28	$30,800	$21,600	87%	$24,000	$53,500
88 Iowa State University Ames, IA	1130/25	$21,100	$14,600	97%	$23,900	$52,700
89 California State University-Northridge Northridge, CA	920/20	$22,700	$7,100	85%	$14,200	$47,900
90 Wellesley College Wellesley, MA	1410/32	$70,700	$21,500	97%	$8,900	$53,800
91 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC	NA/NA	$70,800	$25,600	96%	$23,000	$56,000
92 Cornell University Ithaca, NY	1430/33	$72,000	$32,200	98%	$12,000	$65,600
92 College of Saint Benedict Saint Joseph, MN	1010/25	$58,200	$28,800	96%	$26,300	$46,300
94 Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	1180/27	$25,000	$13,600	80%	$22,500	$50,300
94 University of Georgia Athens, GA	1240/29	$27,000	$16,100	92%	$19,100	$50,200
96 University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA	1180/28	$36,900	$17,500	93%	$20,000	$53,500
97 Citadel Military College of South Carolina Charleston, SC	1060/23	$29,400	$19,800	79%	$23,800	$56,100
97 George Mason University Fairfax, VA	1160/27	$29,900	$19,400	78%	$19,800	$55,100
99 DePauw University Greencastle, IN	1160/27	$64,100	$33,100	100%	$25,600	$52,300
100 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH	1100/25	$33,800	$24,800

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