Rank

School name

Location

Tuition and fees

Enrollment (full-time)

#1

Yale University 

New Haven, CT

$56,200 per year (full-time)

607

#2

Harvard University 

Cambridge, MA

$55,842 per year (full-time)

1,752

#2

Stanford University 

Stanford, CA

$54,366 per year (full-time)

577

#4

Columbia University 

New York, NY

$60,274 per year (full-time)

1,170

#4

University of Chicago 

Chicago, IL

$55,503 per year (full-time)

604

#6

New York University 

New York, NY

$56,838 per year (full-time)

1,423

#7

University of Pennsylvania 

Philadelphia, PA

$56,916 per year (full-time)

756

#8

Duke University 

Durham, NC

$55,588 per year (full-time)

643

#8

University of California—​Berkeley 

Berkeley, CA

$48,166 per year (in-state, full-time); $52,117 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

890

#8

University of Virginia 

Charlottesville, VA

$51,800 per year (in-state, full-time); $54,800 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

1,005

#11

University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor 

Ann Arbor, MI

$51,398 per year (in-state, full-time); $54,398 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

1,000

#12

Northwestern University 

Chicago, IL

$56,434 per year (full-time)

737

#13

Cornell University 

Ithaca, NY

$59,360 per year (full-time)

595

#14

Georgetown University 

Washington, DC

$53,130 per year (full-time)

1,719

#15

University of Texas—​Austin 

Austin, TX

$33,162 per year (in-state, full-time); $49,244 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

1,025

#16

University of California—​Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA

$45,226 per year (in-state, full-time); $51,720 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

992

#17

Vanderbilt University 

Nashville, TN

$49,722 per year (full-time)

525

#18

Washington University in St. Louis 

St. Louis, MO

$50,152 per year (full-time)

749

#19

Emory University 

Atlanta, GA

$49,734 per year (full-time)

819

#20

University of Minnesota—​Twin Cities 

Minneapolis, MN

$41,222 per year (in-state, full-time); $48,710 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

681

#20

University of Southern California (Gould) 

Los Angeles, CA

$57,507 per year (full-time)

604

#22

George Washington University 

Washington, DC

$52,033 per year (full-time)

1,376

#22

University of Alabama 

Tuscaloosa, AL

$21,624 per year (in-state, full-time); $36,304 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

420

#22

University of Iowa 

Iowa City, IA

$23,760 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,296 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

388

#22

University of Notre Dame 

Notre Dame, IN

$50,520 per year (full-time)

549

#26

Arizona State University (O'Connor) 

Tempe, AZ

$26,753 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,751 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

576

#26

Boston University 

Boston, MA

$47,188 per year (full-time)

645

#28

University of Washington 

Seattle, WA

$31,980 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,021 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

516

#29

College of William and Mary (Marshall-​Wythe) 

Williamsburg, VA

$29,800 per year (in-state, full-time); $38,800 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

631

#30

University of California—​Irvine 

Irvine, CA

$44,717 per year (in-state, full-time); $51,211 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

326

#31

University of California—​Davis 

Davis, CA

$47,286 per year (in-state, full-time); $56,537 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

513

#31

University of Georgia 

Athens, GA

$19,140 per year (in-state, full-time); $36,810 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

583

#31

University of Wisconsin—​Madison 

Madison, WI

$21,372 per year (in-state, full-time); $40,068 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

525

#34

Boston College 

Newton, MA

$46,790 per year (full-time)

698

#34

Brigham Young University (Clark) 

Provo, UT

$11,620 per year (LDS member, full-time); $23,240 per year (Non-LDS member, full-time)

394

#34

Fordham University 

New York, NY

$52,532 per year (full-time)

1,005

#34

Indiana University—​Bloomington (Maurer) 

Bloomington, IN

$31,121 per year (in-state, full-time); $49,927 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

586

#34

Ohio State University (Moritz) 

Columbus, OH

$28,577 per year (in-state, full-time); $43,508 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

532

#34

University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill 

Chapel Hill, NC

$22,560 per year (in-state, full-time); $39,191 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

667

#40

University of Colorado—​Boulder 

Boulder, CO

$31,886 per year (in-state, full-time); $38,672 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

509

#41

University of Illinois—​Urbana-​Champaign 

Champaign, IL

$41,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $49,044 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

510

#42

George Mason University 

Arlington, VA

$25,351 per year (in-state, full-time); $40,737 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

340

#42

University of Arizona (Rogers) 

Tucson, AZ

$24,607 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,000 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

379

#42

University of Utah (Quinney) 

Salt Lake City, UT

$24,797 per year (in-state, full-time); $47,170 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

332

#42

Washington and Lee University 

Lexington, VA

$45,597 per year (full-time)

370

#46

Southern Methodist University (Dedman) 

Dallas, TX

$48,796 per year (full-time)

537

#47

University of Florida (Levin) 

Gainesville, FL

$22,230 per year (in-state, full-time); $38,830 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

944

#47

University of Maryland (Carey) 

Baltimore, MD

$28,657 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,464 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

560

#47

Wake Forest University 

Winston-Salem, NC

$42,276 per year (full-time)

486

#50

Florida State University 

Tallahassee, FL

$20,683 per year (in-state, full-time); $40,695 per year (out-of-state, full-time)

614