Best Big-City Schools

Schools embedded in major metro areas.

Sorted by selectivity. 44 schools tagged with this attribute.

#	School	Location	Accept	SAT mid-50%	ACT mid-50%	Undergrads	Avg Class Size	Type
#1	Columbia	New York, New York	3.9%	1500-1560	34-36	8,800	~13 est.	private	View
#2	Harvard	Cambridge, Massachusetts	4.2%	1510-1550	34-36	6,975	~13 est.	private	View
#3	University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	4.5%	1510-1560	34-35	7,500	~11 est.	private	View
#4	MIT	Cambridge, Massachusetts	4.5%	1530-1580	35-36	4,600	~8 est.	private	View
#5	UPenn	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	4.9%	1510-1550	33-35	9,995	~13 est.	private	View
#6	Brown	Providence, Rhode Island	5.4%	1510-1560	34-35	10,690	~13 est.	private	View
#7	Barnard	New York, New York	10.1%	1470-1540	33-35	2,600	~24 est.	private	View
#8	Vanderbilt	Nashville, Tennessee	4.1%	1510-1560	34-35	7,221	~15 est.	private	View
#9	Northeastern	Boston, Massachusetts	5.2%	1450-1520	33-35	16,000	~29 est.	private	View
#10	NYU	New York, New York	7.7%	1480-1550	34-35	29,060	~20 est.	private	View
#11	Rice	Houston, Texas	8.0%	1510-1560	34-35	4,789	~13 est.	private	View
#12	UCLA	Los Angeles, California	9.4%	—	—	33,040	~40 est.	public	View
#13	USC	Los Angeles, California	9.8%	1450-1550	32-35	20,630	~20 est.	private	View
#14	UC Berkeley	Berkeley, California	11.0%	—	—	33,469	~40 est.	public	View
#15	Carnegie Mellon	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	11.1%	1510-1560	33-35	7,369	~13 est.	private	View
#16	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Georgia	12.7%	1370-1530	30-34	18,000	~40 est.	public	View
#17	Georgetown	Washington, District of Columbia	13.0%	1410-1550	32-35	7,500	~24 est.	private	View
#18	Tulane	New Orleans, Louisiana	14.0%	1430-1500	31-34	8,500	~20 est.	private	View
#19	Boston University	Boston, Massachusetts	11.1%	1430-1500	32-34	17,600	~24 est.	private	View
#20	University of Miami	Coral Gables, Florida	17.5%	1340-1450	30-33	13,250	~24 est.	private	View
#21	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, Texas	26.6%	1240-1460	27-33	42,000	~40 est.	public	View
#22	Macalester	Saint Paul, Minnesota	28.2%	1360-1520	29-34	2,200	~22 est.	private	View
#23	UC San Diego	California	28.6%	—	—	33,000	~42 est.	public	View
#24	UC Irvine	California	28.8%	—	—	30,204	~40 est.	public	View
#25	Reed	Portland, Oregon	29.2%	1320-1490	30-34	1,500	~20 est.	private	View
#26	Trinity College	Hartford, Connecticut	38.0%	1300-1430	29-32	2,200	~20 est.	private	View
#27	University of Washington	Seattle, Washington	39.1%	—	—	36,000	~44 est.	public	View
#28	University of Wisconsin	Madison, Wisconsin	45.2%	1370-1490	28-32	37,198	~37 est.	public	View
#29	GWU	Washington, District of Columbia	47.1%	1350-1470	31-34	12,000	~29 est.	private	View
#30	Stevens Institute	Hoboken, New Jersey	47.6%	1380-1505	31-34	4,000	~24 est.	private	View
#31	SMU	Texas	63.3%	1340-1490	30-34	7,000	~24 est.	private	View
#32	TCU	Texas	44.5%	1150-1340	26-31	11,000	~31 est.	private	View
#33	Cal State Long Beach	Long Beach, California	46.3%	1040-1250	20-26	33,000	~53 est.	public	View
#34	Fordham	Bronx, New York	58.0%	1320-1490	31-34	10,000	~33 est.	private	View
#35	American University	Washington, District of Columbia	62.0%	1280-1460	29-32	6,700	~26 est.	private	View
#36	Drexel	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	79.4%	1240-1440	27-32	13,000	~26 est.	private	View
#37	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis, Minnesota	79.8%	1300-1470	26-31	39,908	~37 est.	public	View
#38	Temple	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	80.4%	1130-1358	24-31	24,000	~31 est.	public	View
#39	University of Houston	Houston, Texas	73.9%	1160-1320	23-29	38,673	~46 est.	public	View
#40	San Jose State	San Jose, California	84.6%	1100-1330	24-29	29,000	~53 est.	public	View
#41	University of Arizona	Tucson, Arizona	86.1%	1140-1360	21-29	40,407	~44 est.	public	View
#42	University of Hawaii Manoa	Honolulu, Hawaii	86.6%	1070-1290	17-25	13,000	~29 est.	public	View
#43	University of Utah	Salt Lake City, Utah	87.0%	1100-1330	22-29	24,000	~37 est.	public	View
#44	Arizona State	Tempe, Arizona	89.9%	1130-1360	22-28	65,450	~42 est.	public	View