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Top 25 Undergraduate Colleges

Rank	College Name	State	Cost	Freshman Class Size
1	Princeton University	NJ	47,975	1,242
2	Harvard University	MA	48,550	1,668
3	California Institute of Technology	CA	46,560	231
4	Swarthmore College	PA	48,215	365
5	Williams College	MA	47,140	540
6	United States Military Academy	NY	NA	1,272
7	Amherst College	MA	48,352	NA
8	Yale University	CT	50,350	1,318
9	Wellesley College	MA	47,870	590
10	Columbia University	NY	49,260	1,333
11	Northwestern University	IL	49,779	1,981
12	Wabash College	IN	35,550	250
13	Centre College	KY	37,000	316
14	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MA	48,200	1,067
15	Bowdoin College	ME	48,260	476
16	United States Air Force Academy	CO	0	1,214
17	University of Chicago	IL	49,976	1,300
18	Middlebury College	VT	50,160	644
19	Smith College	MA	47,976	656
20	Pomona College	CA	47,580	375
21	Wesleyan University	CT	49,346	733
22	Haverford College	PA	48,932	315
23	Stanford University	CA	49,220	1,721
24	Sarah Lawrence College	NY	52,200	363
25	Hamilton College	NY	47,900	468

* College rankings based on editor generated composite of major ranking indices.

Top 20 Business Schools
Based On Starting Salary

				Salary
Rank	Name	State	YRS To Break Even	Pre-MBA ($thou)	Post-MBA ($thou)	Tuition ($thou)	GMAT
1	Stanford	CA	4.2	82	225	102	730
2	Harvard	MA	4.0	82	215	102	720
3	Chicago (Booth)	IL	4.2	71	210	97	720
4	Dartmouth (Tuck)	NH	4.0	70	205	94	720
5	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	PA	4.4	75	200	100	715
6	MIT (Sloan)	MA	4.4	70	190	96	710
7	Columbia	NY	4.2	70	182	99	710
8	NYU (Stern)	NY	4.3	62	170	89	710
9	Cornell (Johnson)	NY	4.1	60	168	92	700
10	Northwestern (Kellogg)	IL	4.2	66	165	96	710
11	UC Berkeley (Haas)	CA	4.2	67	163	86	710
12	Yale	CT	4.3	57	160	93	720
13	UCLA (Anderson)	CA	4.4	68	160	83	710
14	Virginia (Darden)	VA	4.2	60	159	93	700
15	Michigan (Ross)	MI	4.3	62	155	93	710
16	Duke University (Fuqua)	NC	4.3	62	148	93	700
17	UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	NC	4.2	55	142	86	690
18	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	TX	4.2	57	125	81	690
19	Iowa (Tippie)	IA	4.2	43	112	53	660
20	Brigham Young (Marriott)	UT	3.9	45	105	38	680

* College rankings based on editor generated composite of major ranking indices.