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:


School
Location
Founded
Abilene Christian UniversityAbilene Texas1906
Adams State CollegeAlamosa Colorado1921
Amherst CollegeAmherst Massachusetts1821
Arizona State UniversityTempe Arizona1885
Bates CollegeLewiston Maine1855
Boston CollegeChestnut Hill Massachusetts1863
Boston UniversityBoston Massachusetts1839
Bowdoin CollegeBrunswick Maine1794
Brandeis UniversityWaltham Massachusetts1948
Brigham Young UniversityProvo Utah1875
Brown UniversityProvidence Rhode Island1764
Bryn Mawr CollegeBryn Mawr Pennsylvania1885
Bucknell UniversityLewisburg Pennsylvania1846
California Institute of TechnologyPasadena California1891
Carleton CollegeNorthfield Minnesota1866
Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh Pennsylvania1900
Case Western Reserve UniversityCleveland Ohio1826
College of New JerseyEwing New Jersey1855
College of the AtlanticBar Harbor Maine1969
Columbia UniversityNew York New York1754
Cooper UnionNew York New York1859
Cornell UniversityIthaca New York1865
Culinary Institute of AmericaHyde Park New York1947
Dartmouth CollegeHanover New Hampshire1769
Davidson CollegeDavidson North Carolina1837
DePaul UniversityChicago Illinois1898
Duke UniversityDurham North Carolina1838
Emory UniversityAtlanta Georgia1836
Florida Southern CollegeLakeland Florida1885
Florida State UniversityTallahassee Florida1851
Georgetown UniversityWashington D.C.1789
Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta Georgia1885
Gonzaga UniversitySpokane Washington1887
Grinnell CollegeGrinnell Iowa1846
Harvard UniversityCambridge Massachusetts1636
Haverford CollegeHaverford Pennsylvania1833
Hollins UniversityRoanoke Virginia1842
Illinois Institute of TechnologyChicago Illinois1890
Indiana UniversityBloomington Indiana1820
Iowa State UniversityAmes Iowa1858
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore Maryland1876
Juilliard SchoolNew York New York1905
Kenyon CollegeGambier Ohio1824
Lincoln UniversityLincoln University Pennsylvania1854
Louisiana State UniversityBaton Rouge Louisiana1860
Macalaster CollegeSt. Paul Minnesota1855
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge Massachusetts1861
Methodist CollegeFayetteville North Carolina1956
Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing Michigan1855
Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury Vermont1800
Mount Holyoke CollegeSouth Hadley Massachusetts1837
New School UniversityNew York New York1919
New York UniversityNew York New York1831
North Central CollegeNaperville Illinois1861
North Dakota State UniversityFargo North Dakota1890
Northwestern UniversityEvanston Illinois1851
Oberlin CollegeOberlin Ohio1833
Ohio State UniversityColumbus Ohio1870
Oklahoma State UniversityStillwater Oklahoma1890
Penn State UniversityUniversity Park Pennsylvania1855
Pomona CollegeClaremont California1887
Princeton UniversityPrinceton New Jersey1746
Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette Indiana1869
Reed CollegePortland Oregon1908
Rhode Island School of DesignProvidence Rhode Island1877
Rice UniversityHouston Texas1912
RutgersNew Brunswick New Jersey1934
San Diego State UniversitySan Diego California1897
Sarah Lawrence CollegeBronxville New York1926
Smith CollegeNorthampton Massachusetts1871
St. Augustine's CollegeRaleigh North Carolina1867
St. John's College (Md)Annapolis Maryland1696
Stanford UniversityStanford California1885
Swarthmore CollegeSwarthmore Pennsylvania1864
Temple UniversityPhiladelphia Pennsylvania1888
Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station Texas1876
Trinity UniversitySan Antonio Texas1869
Tufts UniversityMedford Massachusetts1852
Tulane UniversityNew Orleans Louisiana1834
Tuskegee UniversityTuskegee Alabama1881
U.S. Air Force AcademyUSAFA Colorado1954
U.S. Naval AcademyAnnapolis Maryland1845
University of AlabamaTuscaloosa Alabama1831
University of ArizonaTucson Arizona1885
University of ArkansasFayetteville Arkansas1871
University of CaliforniaBerkeley California1868
University of California (UCLA)Los Angeles California1919
University of ChicagoChicago Illinois1891
University of CincinnatiCincinnati Ohio1819
University of ColoradoBoulder Colorado1876
University of FloridaGainesville Florida1853
University of GeorgiaAthens Georgia1785
University of IllinoisUrbana Illinois1867
University of IowaIowa City Iowa1847
University of KansasLawrence Kansas1866
University of KentuckyLexington Kentucky1865
University of MarylandCollege Park Maryland1856
University of MiamiMiami Florida1925
University of MichiganAnn Arbor Michigan1817
University of MinnesotaMinneapolis Minnesota1851
University of MississippiOxford Mississippi1844
University of MissouriColumbia Missouri1839
University of NebraskaLincoln Nebraska1869
University of North CarolinaChapel Hill North Carolina1789
University of Notre DameSouth Bend Indiana1842
University of OklahomaNorman Oklahoma1890
University of OregonEugene Oregon1876
University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia Pennsylvania1740
University of South CarolinaColumbia South Carolina1801
University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles California1880
University of TennesseeKnoxville Tennessee1794
University of TexasAustin Texas1883
University of VirginiaCharlottesville Virginia1819
University of WashingtonSeattle Washington1861
University of WisconsinMadison Wisconsin1849
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville Tennessee1873
Vassar CollegePoughkeepsie New York1861
Villanova UniversityVillanova Pennsylvania1842
Wake Forest UniversityWinston-Salem North Carolina1834
Washington and Lee UniversityLexington Virginia1749
Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis Missouri1853
Wellesley CollegeWellesley Massachusetts1870
Wesleyan UniversityMiddletown Connecticut1831
Wheaton CollegeWheaton Illinois1860
Williams CollegeWilliamstown Massachusetts1793
Yale UniversityNew Haven Connecticut1701