Ranking	University	State	Acct. Rate
1 2 2 4 5 6 6 8 9 10 10 10 13 13 15 15 15 18 19 20 20 22 23 23 25 25 25 28 29 30 31 31 33 33 35 35 35 38 38 38 41 41 41 44 45 45 45 45 49 49 49	Princeton University Harvard University Yale University California Institute of Technology Massachusetts Inst. of Technology Stanford University University of Pennsylvania Duke University Dartmouth College Columbia University Cornell University University of Chicago Northwestern University Rice University Brown University Johns Hopkins University Washington University in St. Louis Emory University University of Notre Dame University of California � Berkeley University of Virginia Vanderbilt University Carnegie Mellon University Georgetown University Univ. of California � Los Angeles University of Michigan � Ann Arbor U. of North Carolina � Chapel Hill Wake Forest University Tufts University College of William and Mary Brandeis University Univ. of California � San Diego New York University University of Rochester Georgia Institute of Technology Univ. of Southern California Univ. of Wisconsin � Madison Boston College Case Western Reserve Univ. Lehigh University University of California � Davis University of California � Irvine U. of Illinois � Urbana-Champaign Pennsylvania State U. � University Park Tulane University Univ. of California � Santa Barbara University of Washington Yeshiva University Pepperdine University Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. University of Texas � Austin	NJ MA CT CA MA CA PA NC NH NY NY IL IL TX RI MD MO GA IN CA VA TN PA DC CA MI NC NC MA VA MA CA NY NY GA CA WI MA OH PA CA CA IL PA LA CA WA NY CA NY TX	11% 11% 16% 18% 19% 15% 26% 28% 21% 14% 33% 48% 32% 27% 17% 33% 34% 42% 35% 27% 34% 61% 38% 23% 29% 64% 39% 49% 32% 45% 52% 41% 32% 66% 69% 37% 74% 35% 71% 48% 63% 61% 71% 49% 78% 53% 77% 79% 35% 78% 63%

Source: USNews.com Year 2000 ranking