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2012-'13 College Composite Rankings

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

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Rank	College Name	Location	Tuition & Fees	Freshman Class Size	Accept. Rate	Institution Category
1	Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	$40,866	1,655	6.3%	National University
2	Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	$38,650	1,242	8.4%	National University
3	Yale University	New Haven, CT	$42,300	1,318	7.4%	National University
4	University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	$44,574	1,300	16.3%	National University
5	Williams College	Williamstown, MA	$44,920	1,182	17.3%	Liberal Arts College
6	Amherst College	Amherst, MA	$44,610	NA	13.3%	Liberal Arts College
7	Swarthmore College	Swarthmore, PA	$43,080	365	15.1%	Liberal Arts College
8	Columbia University	New York, NY	$47,246	1,333	6.9%	National University
9	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	$43,738	1,214	12.3%	National University
10	Cal Tech	Pasadena, CA	$39,588	978	12.8%	National University
11	MIT	Cambridge, MA	$42,050	1,067	8.9%	National University
12	Stanford University	Stanford, CA	$41,787	1,721	7.1%	National University
13	Duke University	Durham, NC	$43,623	365	14%	National University
14	Pomona College	Claremont, CA	$41,438	375	14%	Liberal Arts College
15	Wellesley College	Wellesley, MA	$42,082	590	30.9%	Liberal Arts College
16	Claremont McKenna College	Claremont, CA	$44,085	250	14.1%	Liberal Arts College
17	Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH	$45,042	316	10.1%	Liberal Arts College
18	Northwestern University	Evanston, IL	$43,779	1,981	18%	National University
19	Bowdoin College	Brunswick, ME	$44,118	476	16.1%	Liberal Arts College
20	Middlebury College	Middlebury, VT	$44,111	644	18.3%	Liberal Arts College
21	Carleton College	Northfield, MN	$44,445	656	31%	Liberal Arts College
22	Vassar College	Poughkeepsie, NY	$46,270	733	22.5%	Liberal Arts College
23	Haverford College	Haverford, PA	$43,702	315	25.1%	Liberal Arts College
24	Harvey Mudd College	Claremont, CA	$44,442	363	22.3%	Liberal Arts College
25	Davidson College	Davidson, NC	$40,809	468	28%	Liberal Arts College

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

Top 20 Business Schools
Based On Median Starting Salary as of 2012

				Salary
Rank	Name	State	YRS To Break Even	Pre-MBA ($thou)	Post-MBA ($thou)	Tuition ($thou)	GMAT
1	Stanford GSB	CA	4.2	82	129	118	730
2	Harvard	MA	4.0	82	124	126	720
3	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	PA	4.4	75	121	108	715
4	MIT (Sloan)	MA	4.4	70	121	108	715
5	Northwestern (Kellogg)	IL	4.2	66	116	113	710
6	Chicago (Booth)	IL	4.2	71	115	111	720
7	Berkeley (Haas)	CA	4.2	67	115	117	718
8	Columbia University	NY	4.2	70	112	118	710
9	Dartmouth (Tuck)	NH	4.0	70	110	90	720
10	Michigan (Ross)	MI	4.3	62	111	100	706
11	Duke (Fuqua)	NC	4.3	62	111	109	697
12	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	TX	4.3	62	111	106	710
13	Virginia (Darden)	VA	4.2	60	109	95	700
14	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	PA	n/a	n/a	107	111	698
15	Cornell (Johnson)	NY	4.1	60	106	107	693
16	UCLA (Anderson)	CA	4.4	68	105	96	708
17	Emory (Goizueta)	GA	n/a	n/a	103	88	710
18	Yale	CT	4.3	57	103	115	720
19	UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	NC	4.2	55	102	66	690
20	New York (Stern)	NY	4.3	62	100	111	720