Rank
|
INSTITUTION |
SAT/ACT 25th-75th percentile (2009)
|
Student faculty ratio
(2009) |
2009 Freshmen in top 10
percent of high school class |
Fall 2009 Acceptance rate |
| 1 |
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
|
1370-1560
|
7:1
|
95%
|
11%
|
| 2 |
Stanford University
|
1340-1540
|
6:1
|
91%
|
8%
|
| 3 |
University of California–Berkeley
|
1230-1470
|
16:1
|
98%
|
13%
|
| 4 |
California
Institute of Technology
|
1460-1570
|
3:1
|
98%
|
15%
|
| 4 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
|
1230-1430
|
20:1
|
81%
|
28%
|
| 6 |
University
of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
|
NA
|
16:1
|
58%
|
65%
|
| 7 |
University
of Michigan–Ann Arbor
|
NA
|
15:1
|
92%
|
50%
|
| 8 |
Carnegie
Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
|
1290-1500
|
12:1
|
75%
|
36%
|
| |
Cornell University
|
1290-1500
|
11:1
|
86%
|
19%
|
| |
Purdue
University–West Lafayette (IN)
|
1040-1280
|
14:1
|
35%
|
73%
|
| 11 |
Princeton University
|
1390-1580
|
6:1
|
95%
|
10%
|
| |
University of Texas--Austin
|
1100-1360
|
17:1
|
77%
|
45%
|
| 13 |
Johns Hopkins University
|
1300-1500
|
10:1
|
83%
|
27%
|
| |
Northwestern University
|
1360-1530
|
7:1
|
90%
|
27%
|
| |
University of Wisconsin--Madison
|
NA
|
17:1
|
57%
|
57%
|
| |
Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA
|
1110-1310
|
16:1
|
44%
|
67%
|
| 17 |
Pennsylvania State University--University
Park University Park, PA
|
1090-1300
|
17:1
|
50%
|
52%
|
| |
Texas A&M University--College Station
College Station, TX
|
1100-1310
|
18:1
|
50%
|
67%
|
| 19 |
Rice University Houston, TX
|
1320-1530
|
6:1
|
84%
|
22%
|
| |
University of California--Los Angeles
|
1170-1410
|
17:1
|
97%
|
22%
|
| |
University of Maryland--College Park
|
1200-1390
|
18:1
|
71%
|
42%
|
| 22 |
Duke University,Durham, NC
|
1340-1530
|
8:1
|
90%
|
19%
|
| |
University of California--San Diego
|
1150-1380
|
19:1
|
100%
|
38%
|
| |
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
|
NA
|
21:1
|
43%
|
50%
|
| |
University of Washington Seattle, WA
|
1100-1330
|
12:1
|
86%
|
58%
|
| 26 |
Columbia University New York, NY
|
1370-1550
|
6:1
|
97%
|
10%
|
| |
Harvard University Cambridge, MA
|
1380-1570
|
7:1
|
95%
|
7%
|
| |
North Carolina State University--Raleigh
Raleigh, NC
|
1080-1280
|
17:1
|
55%
|
41%
|
| |
Ohio State University--Columbus Columbus,
OH
|
NA
|
15:1
|
49%
|
76%
|
| |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy,
NY
|
1270-1450
|
16:1
|
61%
|
43%
|
