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Top 500 Ranked Private Colleges and Universities

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Top 500 Ranked Private Colleges and Universities

Rank Private Colleges and Universities
2020 2015 School Name 2020 2015
1 1 California Institute of Technology 100.00 No Change
2 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 99.62 No Change
3 3 Princeton University 99.61 No Change
4 7 Williams College 99.55 99.20 (0.4%)
5 5 University of Notre Dame 99.33 No Change
6 8 Swarthmore College 99.27 99.04 (0.2%)
7 11 Middlebury College 99.17 98.94 (0.2%)
8 12 Wesleyan University 99.11 98.93 (0.2%)
9 17 Bowdoin College 99.09 98.80 (0.3%)
10 9 Rice University 99.02 No Change
11 6 Amherst College 99.01 99.27 (0.3%)
12 13 Pomona College 98.98 No Change
13 21 Carleton College 98.95 98.66 (0.3%)
14 132 Vanderbilt University 98.95 93.32 (6.0%)
15 19 Wellesley College 98.91 98.74 (0.2%)
16 10 Vassar College 98.73 99.02 (0.3%)
17 22 Claremont McKenna College 98.67 No Change
18 70 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering 98.66 95.68 (3.1%)
19 14 Brown University 98.61 98.87 (0.3%)
20 20 Harvey Mudd College 98.59 98.69 (0.1%)

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