Best College Towns

Schools where the town basically IS the school.

Sorted by selectivity. 36 schools tagged with this attribute.

#	School	Location	Accept	SAT mid-50%	ACT mid-50%	Undergrads	Avg Class Size	Type
#1	Yale	New Haven, Connecticut	3.9%	1480-1560	33-35	6,814	~13 est.	private	View
#2	Princeton	Princeton, New Jersey	4.6%	1500-1560	34-35	5,813	~11 est.	private	View
#3	Amherst	Amherst, Massachusetts	6.8%	1490-1560	33-35	1,900	~15 est.	private	View
#4	Bowdoin	Brunswick, Maine	6.8%	1470-1540	33-35	1,841	~20 est.	private	View
#5	Cornell	Ithaca, New York	8.8%	1510-1560	33-35	16,128	~20 est.	private	View
#6	Davidson	Davidson, North Carolina	12.6%	1360-1490	31-34	1,900	~20 est.	private	View
#7	Bates	Lewiston, Maine	13.3%	1410-1490	31-33	1,900	~22 est.	private	View
#8	Wesleyan	Middletown, Connecticut	16.1%	1300-1500	31-34	3,805	~18 est.	private	View
#9	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, Michigan	16.4%	1370-1530	31-34	33,000	~24 est.	public	View
#10	Carleton	Northfield, Minnesota	20.4%	1470-1530	33-35	2,069	~20 est.	private	View
#11	Vassar	Poughkeepsie, New York	20.9%	1460-1530	32-34	2,400	~18 est.	private	View
#12	Smith	Northampton, Massachusetts	21.0%	1450-1520	32-35	2,500	~15 est.	private	View
#13	University of Florida	Gainesville, Florida	24.2%	1320-1470	29-33	34,000	~35 est.	public	View
#14	Oberlin	Oberlin, Ohio	34.2%	1360-1500	30-33	2,900	~20 est.	private	View
#15	University of Georgia	Athens, Georgia	37.9%	1220-1400	26-34	31,000	~37 est.	public	View
#16	UC Davis	California	41.8%	—	—	32,273	~46 est.	public	View
#17	Purdue	West Lafayette, Indiana	49.9%	1220-1480	28-34	37,000	~29 est.	public	View
#18	Florida State	Tallahassee, Florida	24.2%	1290-1400	29-32	34,271	~40 est.	public	View
#19	Clemson	Clemson, South Carolina	38.3%	1250-1400	28-32	23,401	~33 est.	public	View
#20	University of Tennessee	Knoxville, Tennessee	41.6%	1210-1370	25-32	31,000	~40 est.	public	View
#21	Auburn	Auburn, Alabama	45.9%	1260-1380	26-29	28,953	~40 est.	public	View
#22	Syracuse	New York	45.9%	1270-1440	29-32	15,739	~31 est.	private	View
#23	Texas A&M	College Station, Texas	51.7%	1160-1390	25-31	60,765	~42 est.	public	View
#24	University of Connecticut	Storrs, Connecticut	52.4%	1220-1420	28-33	20,056	~35 est.	public	View
#25	Penn State	University Park, Pennsylvania	61.0%	1250-1410	27-32	42,619	~37 est.	public	View
#26	University of Vermont	Burlington, Vermont	65.3%	1300-1420	29-32	11,300	~33 est.	public	View
#27	Michigan State	East Lansing, Michigan	84.8%	1100-1310	24-30	52,089	~37 est.	public	View
#28	LSU	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	73.3%	1180-1310	24-30	28,286	~66 est.	public	View
#29	Indiana University	Bloomington, Indiana	75.9%	1200-1410	27-33	33,000	~37 est.	public	View
#30	University of Colorado Boulder	Boulder, Colorado	75.9%	1180-1390	27-33	33,384	~40 est.	public	View
#31	University of Alabama	Tuscaloosa, Alabama	76.6%	1175-1410	22-33	33,000	~40 est.	public	View
#32	University of Missouri	Columbia, Missouri	78.5%	1150-1330	23-30	31,000	~40 est.	public	View
#33	University of Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	83.6%	1130-1330	21-28	22,738	~33 est.	public	View
#34	Iowa State	Ames, Iowa	88.7%	1130-1350	21-28	30,380	~40 est.	public	View
#35	University of Mississippi	Mississippi	96.6%	1000-1200	21-29	21,473	~42 est.	public	View
#36	University of Maine	Orono, Maine	96.6%	1050-1280	21-30	9,000	~33 est.	public	View