| 1 | Rice University Houston, TX | 98 | $13,370 | $89,718 | $11,000 | 94.6% | Exceptional |
| 2 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA | 96 | $16,665 | $90,768 | $18,500 | 86.4% | Exceptional |
| 3 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 95 | $13,138 | $83,648 | $19,500 | 93.2% | Exceptional |
| 4 | University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA | 95 | $21,565 | $86,863 | $17,500 | 95.6% | Exceptional |
| 5 | University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD | 94 | $15,678 | $82,860 | $19,000 | 88.6% | Exceptional |
| 6 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | 94 | $11,655 | $72,200 | $14,000 | 91.2% | Exceptional |
| 7 | Brigham Young University Provo, UT | 94 | $15,564 | $75,790 | $11,069 | 81.0% | Exceptional |
| 8 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | 93 | $14,355 | $81,054 | $19,500 | 85.1% | Exceptional |
| 9 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | 92 | $6,541 | $71,588 | $15,000 | 91.1% | Exceptional |
| 10 | Emory University Atlanta, GA | 92 | $22,585 | $80,137 | $18,250 | 91.1% | Exceptional |
| 11 | William & Mary Williamsburg, VA | 91 | $19,096 | $73,490 | $18,500 | 89.4% | Exceptional |
| 12 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI | 91 | $17,354 | $73,792 | $20,484 | 89.5% | Exceptional |
| 13 | Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN | 91 | $14,600 | $72,424 | $19,500 | 83.1% | Exceptional |
| 14 | University of Florida-Online Gainesville, FL | 91 | $4,815 | $71,588 | $15,000 | 84.7% | Exceptional |
| 15 | The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX | 90 | $19,857 | $75,121 | $20,500 | 88.9% | Exceptional |
| 16 | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona, CA | 89 | $11,531 | $71,902 | $16,000 | 68.4% | Strong |
| 17 | Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI | 89 | $14,182 | $78,198 | $24,990 | 68.1% | Strong |
| 18 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX | 89 | $21,315 | $72,097 | $17,804 | 83.9% | Strong |
| 19 | California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA | 88 | $6,555 | $62,951 | $13,750 | 70.2% | Strong |
| 20 | University of Georgia Athens, GA | 88 | $13,936 | $68,726 | $18,500 | 89.7% | Strong |
| 21 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | 88 | $16,778 | $69,020 | $19,500 | 85.3% | Strong |
| 22 | Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC | 88 | $28,719 | $78,158 | $21,500 | 89.1% | Strong |
| 23 | Ohio Northern University Ada, OH | 88 | $24,478 | $80,928 | $27,000 | 75.5% | Strong |
| 24 | North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC | 87 | $17,303 | $68,758 | $20,121 | 84.8% | Strong |
| 25 | University of Connecticut-Avery Point Groton, CT | 87 | $13,807 | $73,997 | $21,500 | 61.6% | Strong |
| 26 | University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus Hartford, CT | 87 | $16,403 | $73,997 | $21,500 | 65.0% | Strong |
| 27 | California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA | 86 | $10,440 | $64,403 | $14,289 | 68.9% | Strong |
| 28 | University of Delaware Newark, DE | 86 | $17,799 | $72,950 | $24,572 | 80.5% | Strong |
| 29 | George Mason University Fairfax, VA | 86 | $17,915 | $76,343 | $19,500 | 67.8% | Strong |
| 30 | University of the Pacific Stockton, CA | 85 | $25,447 | $78,445 | $19,500 | 69.0% | Strong |
| 31 | University of Connecticut Storrs, CT | 85 | $25,097 | $73,997 | $21,500 | 83.3% | Strong |
| 32 | University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL | 85 | $10,974 | $68,740 | $16,704 | 61.6% | Strong |
| 33 | Citadel Military College of South Carolina Charleston, SC | 85 | $20,723 | $72,085 | $21,096 | 75.0% | Strong |
| 34 | University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus Waterbury, CT | 85 | $10,875 | $73,997 | $21,500 | 52.7% | Strong |
| 35 | San Diego State University San Diego, CA | 84 | $15,364 | $64,909 | $15,000 | 76.4% | Strong |
| 36 | Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN | 84 | $16,264 | $63,742 | $19,509 | 80.2% | Strong |
| 37 | Manhattan University Riverdale, NY | 84 | $27,256 | $86,316 | $26,000 | 63.7% | Strong |
| 38 | Linfield University McMinnville, OR | 84 | $26,536 | $78,638 | $25,000 | 70.5% | Strong |
| 39 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT | 84 | $16,200 | $67,170 | $19,000 | 65.0% | Strong |
| 40 | James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA | 84 | $23,322 | $69,954 | $20,093 | 79.7% | Strong |
| 41 | Washington State University Pullman, WA | 84 | $14,971 | $68,905 | $19,500 | 60.5% | Strong |
| 42 | University of Connecticut-Stamford Stamford, CT | 84 | $16,798 | $73,997 | $21,500 | 56.5% | Strong |
| 43 | California State University-Sacramento Sacramento, CA | 83 | $9,338 | $64,876 | $15,000 | 56.3% | Strong |
| 44 | Florida State University Tallahassee, FL | 83 | $11,297 | $61,675 | $18,000 | 85.6% | Strong |
| 45 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA | 83 | $22,383 | $71,631 | $22,763 | 83.3% | Strong |
| 46 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | 83 | $24,406 | $74,479 | $21,500 | 83.6% | Strong |
| 47 | Farmingdale State College Farmingdale, NY | 83 | $10,867 | $69,781 | $14,718 | 52.8% | Strong |
| 48 | University of Dayton Dayton, OH | 83 | $29,533 | $75,537 | $23,250 | 80.2% | Strong |
| 49 | University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK | 83 | $15,300 | $63,126 | $20,654 | 75.3% | Strong |
| 50 | University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK | 83 | $15,000 | $61,408 | $21,500 | 72.3% | Strong |