Top-Ranked Public and Private Colleges and Universities

The following is a list of the Top 50 colleges and universities that students have applied to each year in the Eastern part of the United States. Depending on the prospective major a student is considering, these schools are worth researching:

Private – MIT, Duke, Harvard, Yale, Washington & Lee, Penn, Williams, Dartmouth, Princeton, Colgate, Carnegie-Mellon, Brown, Cornell, Lehigh, Georgetown, Tufts, Columbia, Lafayette, Boston College, Stevens Institute, Johns Hopkins, Worcester Polytechnic, RPI, Villanova, Amherst, Haverford, Bucknell, Wake Forest, Swarthmore.

Public – Georgia Tech, Virginia, Virginia Tech, William & Mary, UNC-Chapel Hill, Florida, Clemson, James Madison, North Carolina State, The College of NJ, NJ Institute of Technology, Maryland, Towson, Georgia, Connecticut, Delaware, Rutgers, Pitt, Temple, Penn State.