| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 99 | $20,111 | $143,372 | $14,768 | 96.4% | Exceptional |
| 2 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 99 | $13,807 | $124,080 | $12,000 | 91.9% | Exceptional |
| 3 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL | 98 | $14,860 | $91,885 | $15,000 | 95.9% | Exceptional |
| 4 | Rice University Houston, TX | 98 | $13,370 | $89,718 | $11,000 | 94.6% | Exceptional |
| 5 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 97 | $13,481 | $92,446 | $13,000 | 92.8% | Exceptional |
| 6 | Yale University New Haven, CT | 97 | $23,777 | $100,533 | $12,975 | 95.7% | Exceptional |
| 7 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA | 97 | $12,116 | $102,772 | $21,672 | 94.0% | Exceptional |
| 8 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | 97 | $26,780 | $99,980 | $19,000 | 95.2% | Exceptional |
| 9 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | 97 | $31,944 | $114,862 | $21,750 | 94.1% | Exceptional |
| 10 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 97 | $28,699 | $111,371 | $15,715 | 96.5% | Exceptional |
| 11 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | 97 | $15,846 | $91,565 | $14,000 | 93.5% | Exceptional |
| 12 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA | 96 | $16,665 | $90,768 | $18,500 | 86.4% | Exceptional |
| 13 | University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | 96 | $12,548 | $82,511 | $14,000 | 92.6% | Exceptional |
| 14 | University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA | 96 | $12,470 | $84,943 | $15,500 | 86.1% | Exceptional |
| 15 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | 96 | $18,809 | $87,555 | $10,250 | 93.8% | Exceptional |
| 16 | Babson College Wellesley, MA | 96 | $40,514 | $123,938 | $20,000 | 93.1% | Exceptional |
| 17 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | 96 | $19,066 | $101,817 | $14,000 | 97.6% | Exceptional |
| 18 | Williams College Williamstown, MA | 96 | $17,716 | $88,665 | $12,761 | 93.6% | Exceptional |
| 19 | Washington University in St Louis St. Louis, MO | 96 | $21,786 | $86,182 | $17,500 | 94.3% | Exceptional |
| 20 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | 96 | $21,590 | $102,491 | $21,500 | 96.1% | Exceptional |
| 21 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 96 | $28,690 | $104,043 | $14,000 | 95.4% | Exceptional |
| 22 | Duke University Durham, NC | 96 | $29,612 | $97,800 | $13,000 | 96.8% | Exceptional |
| 23 | Brown University Providence, RI | 96 | $25,184 | $93,487 | $11,428 | 95.7% | Exceptional |
| 24 | University of California-Davis Davis, CA | 95 | $14,741 | $80,838 | $13,000 | 85.7% | Exceptional |
| 25 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 95 | $13,138 | $83,648 | $19,500 | 93.2% | Exceptional |
| 26 | Dartmouth College Hanover, NH | 95 | $29,519 | $97,434 | $17,500 | 95.5% | Exceptional |
| 27 | University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA | 95 | $21,565 | $86,863 | $17,500 | 95.6% | Exceptional |
| 28 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 94 | $16,075 | $128,566 | N/A | 94.4% | Exceptional |
| 29 | University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA | 94 | $14,251 | $80,735 | $15,000 | 86.9% | Exceptional |
| 30 | Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO | 94 | $28,690 | $97,335 | $23,000 | 81.7% | Exceptional |
| 31 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL | 94 | $29,167 | $89,363 | $15,000 | 95.1% | Exceptional |
| 32 | Colby College Waterville, ME | 94 | $17,180 | $80,490 | $19,157 | 88.8% | Exceptional |
| 33 | University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD | 94 | $15,678 | $82,860 | $19,000 | 88.6% | Exceptional |
| 34 | Bentley University Waltham, MA | 94 | $37,930 | $120,959 | $25,023 | 86.8% | Exceptional |
| 35 | Wellesley College Wellesley, MA | 94 | $25,496 | $84,803 | $10,000 | 91.5% | Exceptional |
| 36 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 94 | $6,128 | $110,066 | $10,320 | 97.6% | Exceptional |
| 37 | Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Albany, NY | 94 | $29,882 | $131,426 | $25,500 | 67.5% | Exceptional |
| 38 | The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York, NY | 94 | $13,269 | $83,847 | $15,000 | 81.1% | Exceptional |
| 39 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | 94 | $11,655 | $72,200 | $14,000 | 91.2% | Exceptional |
| 40 | Brigham Young University Provo, UT | 94 | $15,564 | $75,790 | $11,069 | 81.0% | Exceptional |
| 41 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA | 94 | $14,091 | $78,466 | $14,615 | 85.2% | Exceptional |
| 42 | Georgetown University Washington, DC | 93 | $40,815 | $103,494 | $15,500 | 94.8% | Exceptional |
| 43 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | 93 | $14,355 | $81,054 | $19,500 | 85.1% | Exceptional |
| 44 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY | 93 | $36,228 | $102,051 | $23,750 | 83.6% | Exceptional |
| 45 | United States Merchant Marine Academy Kings Point, NY | 93 | $6,174 | $90,610 | $8,833 | 82.4% | Exceptional |
| 46 | Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA | 93 | $36,931 | $105,584 | $21,960 | 87.9% | Exceptional |
| 47 | Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA | 92 | $28,849 | $104,736 | $13,500 | 91.4% | Exceptional |
| 48 | Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA | 92 | $35,924 | $138,687 | $25,000 | 91.9% | Exceptional |
| 49 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | 92 | $6,541 | $71,588 | $15,000 | 91.1% | Exceptional |
| 50 | Emory University Atlanta, GA | 92 | $22,585 | $80,137 | $18,250 | 91.1% | Exceptional |