The following rankings are based on US News & World Report's 2025 National University Rankings. Learn more with data from your dream schools to determine if you are a good fit!
Rank
University
Location
Acceptance Rate
46
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
42.5%
46
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
25.9%
46
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
21.6%
46
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
22.6%
46
Purdue University–West Lafayette
West Lafayette, Indiana
49.7%
44
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, Maryland
34.5%
44
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York
39.3%
41
Ohio State University, Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
48.6%
41
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
New Brunswick, New Jersey
65.3%
41
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
11.1%
39
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
25.6%
39
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
44.2%
37
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
19%
37
Tufts University
Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts
9.5%
33
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia
17%
33
University of California, Davis
Davis, California
42.5%
33
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California
22.9%
33
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
43.7%
30
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
31.4%
30
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
23%
30
New York University
New York City, New York
7.7%
29
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California
24.7%
27
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
15.4%
27
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
10%
24
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
16.8%
24
Georgetown University
Washington, Washington, D.C
12.7%
24
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
13.8%
21
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan
17.9%
21
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
12.1%
21
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
11.7%
18
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
12.7%
18
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
6.7%
18
Rice University
Houston, Texas
7.9%
17
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
11%
15
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
9.2%
15
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
6.2%
13
Columbia University
New York City, New York
4%
13
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
5.4%
11
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
6.9%
11
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
5.4%
10
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
5.9%
6
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
5.9%
6
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
7%
6
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
7%
6
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
2.6%
5
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
3.7%
4
Stanford University
Stanford, California
3.6%
3
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
3.3%
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
4.8%
1
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
4.3%