What Are The T50 or The Top 50 U.S Colleges?

There is no universally agreed-upon definition of what constitutes the T50, but this list will suffice for practically everyone. We are excluding liberal arts colleges because they should not be compared to research universities.

1. Harvard University

2. Yale University

3. Princeton University

4. Stanford University

5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

6. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

7. Columbia University

8. University of Pennsylvania

9. Dartmouth College

10. Brown University

11. Cornell University

12. Duke University

13. Vanderbilt University

14. University of Chicago

15. Johns Hopkins

16. Northwestern

17. University of Southern California

18. Rice University

19. Georgetown University

20. New York University

21. University Washington in St. Louis

22. University of Notre Dame

23. Carnegie Mellon University

24. Emory University

25. Tufts University

26. University of Michigan

27. University of California, Los Angelos (UCLA)

28. University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

29. Georgia Institute of Technology

30. Tulane University

31. Boston College

32. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC Chapel Hill)

33. University of Virginia (UVA)

34. University of Texas Austin, (UT Austin)

35. University of California, Irvine

36. University of Rochester

37. University of California, San Diego

38. University of California, Santa Barbara

39. University of Miami

40. University of Florida

41. University of Florida State

42. Boston University

43. University of California, Davis

44. University of California, Santa Cruz

45. University of Washington State Seattle

46. Northeastern University

47. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

48. Purdue University

49. University of Wisconsin–Madison

50. University of Maryland

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