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rank University place Tuition and fees enrollment 1 Princeton University Princeton, NJ $ 53,890 5.422 2 Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. $ 54.002 6,755 3 Columbia University New York City $ 64,380 6.245 4 (tie) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. $ 53,818 4,530 4 (tie) Yale University New Haven, Conn. $ 57,700 6,092 6 (tie) Stanford University Stanford, California $ 56,169 6,996 6 (tie) University of Chicago Chicago $ 59,298 6.734 8th University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia $ 60,042 10,019 9 (tie) California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California $ 56,862 $ 938 9 (tie) Johns Hopkins University Baltimore $ 57,010 6.256 9 (tie) Northwestern University Evanston, Ill. 58,701 USD 8.327 12th Duke University Durham, NC $ 60,488 6.649 13 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH $ 59,458 4.459 14 (tie) Brown University Providence, RI $ 60,696 7.160 14 (tie) Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tenn. $ 54,158 6.886 16 (tie) Rice university Houston $ 51,107 3,989 16 (tie) Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis $ 57,386 7,822 18th Cornell University Ithaca, NY $ 59,316 15,043 19th Notre Dame University Notre Dame, Ind. $ 57,699 8,731 20th University of California, Los Angeles The angel $ 42,980 (outside of state), $ 13,226 (outside of state) 31,543 21st Emory University Atlanta $ 53,868 7.118 22nd University of California, Berkeley Berkeley $ 43,980 (outside of state), $ 14,226 (outside of state) 31,780 23 Georgetown University Washington, DC $ 57,928 7.513 24 (tie) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, Mich. $ 52,266 (out of state), $ 15,948 (out of state) 31.266 24 (tie) University of Southern California The angel $ 59,072 20,351 26 (tie) Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh $ 58,924 7,022 26 (tie) University of Virginia Charlottesville, Va. $ 52,957 (out of state), $ 18,878 (out of state) 17,011 28 (tie) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC $ 36,200 (outside of state), $ 9,021 (outside of state) 19,355 28 (tie) Wake Forest University) Winston-Salem, NC $ 57,760 5.287 30 (tie) New York University New York City $ 54,880 26,981 30 (tie) Tufts University Medford, Mass. $ 60,862 5,907 30 (tie) University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California $ 44,145 (out of state), $ 14,391 (out of state) 23,349 30 (tie) University of Florida Gainesville, Fla. $ 28,658 (out of state), $ 6,380 (out of state) 35,405 34 University of Rochester Rochester, NY $ 58,208 6,780 35 (tie) Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. 60,202 USD 9.370 35 (tie) Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta $ 33,794 (out of state), $ 12,682 (out of state) 15,964 35 (tie) University of California, Irvine Irvine, California $ 43,686 (out of state), $ 13,932 (out of state) 30,382 35 (tie) University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California $ 44,205 (out of state), $ 14,451 (out of state) 30,794 39 (tie) University of California, Davis Davis, California. $ 44,407 (out of state), $ 14,653 (out of state) 30,982 39 (tie) William & Mary Williamsburg, Va. $ 46,283 (out of state), $ 23,362 (out of state) 6.256 41 Tulane University New Orleans $ 58,852 6,968 42 (tie) Boston University Boston $ 58,072 17,983 42 (tie) Brandeis University Waltham, Mass. $ 57,615 3,688 42 (tie) Case Western Reserve University Cleveland $ 52,948 5.383 42 (tie) University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas $ 39,322 (out of state), $ 11,106 (out of state) 40.163 42 (tie) University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wis. $ 38,629 (out of state), $ 10,741 (out of state) 33,456 47 (tie) University of Georgia Athens, Ga. $ 31,120 (outside of state), $ 12,080 (outside of state) 29,848 47 (tie) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne Champagne, ill. $ 34,312 (out of state), $ 16,862 (out of state) 34,120 49 (tie) Lehigh University Bethlehem, Penn. $ 55,260 5.178 49 (tie) Northeastern University Boston $ 55,382 14.202 49 (tie) Pepperdine University Malibu, California $ 58.002 3,583 49 (tie) University of Miami Coral Gables, Fla. $ 53,682 11.307