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Top 500 Ranked Public State Universities

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Top 500 Ranked Public State Universities

Rank Public State Universities
2020 2015 School Name 2020 2015
1 2 United States Coast Guard Academy 98.90 98.07 (0.9%)
2 3 College of William and Mary 97.89 No Change
3 1 United States Naval Academy 97.52 98.72 (1.2%)
4 19 United States Merchant Marine Academy 97.30 95.00 (2.4%)
5 17 United States Military Academy 96.76 95.12 (1.7%)
6 8 University of Georgia 96.13 No Change
7 18 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 96.12 95.11 (1.1%)
8 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 96.10 96.43 (0.3%)
9 16 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 96.08 95.29 (0.8%)
10 9 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 95.90 No Change
11 11 Clemson University 95.82 No Change
12 13 University of Virginia-Main Campus 95.73 95.45 (0.3%)
13 10 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 95.67 95.84 (0.2%)
14 7 The University of Texas at Austin 95.63 96.18 (0.6%)
15 6 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 95.09 96.22 (1.2%)
16 12 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 95.02 95.48 (0.5%)
17 25 University of Florida 95.00 94.13 (0.9%)
18 28 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 94.72 94.01 (0.8%)
19 38 University of North Carolina School of the Arts 94.70 92.96 (1.9%)
20 15 University of Delaware 94.68 95.32 (0.7%)

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