Alphabetical List of Schools

About 90 of the colleges and universities chosen were included in the survey for the obvious reasons.  They're always included because they are the dominant schools in the country.  The rest were included either because they had unusual Athletic attributes (e.g.,  Abilene Christian and North Dakota State), unusual Academic selectivity (e.g., Juilliard with the lowest acceptance rate in the country), unusual Quality of Life attributes (e.g., the U.S. Air Force Academy which has a larger campus by a factor of two than any other school in the country) or simply because they were small or otherwise unusual (the College of the Atlantic, the Culinary Institute of America and RISD fall in this category).  Many notable schools, such as Cornell College in Iowa and Elon University in North Carolina, were not included, but we hope to include them in the future.  One problem with including those schools is that the 30-some data points for those schools is either unavailable or hard to come by.  In any event, of the schools included:

Schools

Location

Founded

Abilene Christian University

Abilene    Texas

1906

Adams State College

Alamosa    Colorado

1921

Amherst College

Amherst    Massachusetts

1821

Arizona State University

Tempe    Arizona

1885

Bates College

Lewiston    Maine

1855

Boston College

Chestnut Hill    Massachusetts

1863

Boston University

Boston    Massachusetts

1839

Bowdoin College

Brunswick    Maine

1794

Brandeis University

Waltham    Massachusetts

1948

Brigham Young University

Provo    Utah

1875

Brown University

Providence    Rhode Island

1764

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr    Pennsylvania

1885

Bucknell University

Lewisburg    Pennsylvania

1846

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena    California

1891

Carleton College

Northfield    Minnesota

1866

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh    Pennsylvania

1900

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland    Ohio

1826

College of New Jersey

Ewing    New Jersey

1855

College of the Atlantic

Bar Harbor    Maine

1969

Columbia University

New York    New York

1754

Cooper Union

New York    New York

1859

Cornell University

Ithaca    New York

1865

Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park    New York

1947

Dartmouth College

Hanover    New Hampshire

1769

Davidson College

Davidson    North Carolina

1837

DePaul University

Chicago    Illinois

1898

Duke University

Durham    North Carolina

1838

Emory University

Atlanta    Georgia

1836

Florida Southern College

Lakeland    Florida

1885

Florida State University

Tallahassee    Florida

1851

Georgetown University

Washington    D.C.

1789

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta    Georgia

1885

Gonzaga University

Spokane    Washington

1887

Grinnell College

Grinnell    Iowa

1846

Harvard University

Cambridge    Massachusetts

1636

Haverford College

Haverford    Pennsylvania

1833

Hollins University

Roanoke    Virginia

1842

Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago    Illinois

1890

Indiana University

Bloomington    Indiana

1820

Iowa State University

Ames    Iowa

1858

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore    Maryland

1876

Juilliard School

New York    New York

1905

Kenyon College

Gambier    Ohio

1824

Lincoln University

Lincoln University    Penn.

1854

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge    Louisiana

1860

Macalaster College

St. Paul    Minnesota

1855

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge    Massachusetts

1861

Methodist College

Fayetteville    North Carolina

1956

Michigan State University

East Lansing    Michigan

1855

Middlebury College

Middlebury    Vermont

1800

Mount Holyoke College

South Hadley    Massachusetts

1837

New School University

New York    New York

1919

New York University

New York    New York

1831