Rank

Academic Institution

Institution control

1

California Institute of Technology

Private

2

Harvey Mudd College

Private

3

Massachusetts institute of Technology

Private

4

Reed College

Private

5

Swarthmore College

Private

6

Carleton College

Private

7

University of Chicago

Private

8

Grinnell College

Private

9

Rice University

Private

10

Princeton University

Private

11

Harvard University

Private

12

Bryn Mawr College

Private

13

Haverford College

Private

14

Pomona College

Private

15

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Public

16

Williams College

Private

17

Yale University

Private

18

Oberlin College

Private

19

Stanford University

Private

20

Johns Hopkins University

Private

21

Kalamazoo College 

Private

22

Cornell University, all campuses

Private

23

Case Western Reserve University

Private

24

Washington College

Private

25

Brown University

Private

26

Wesleyan University

Private

27

Carnegie Mellon University

Private

28

Macalester College

Private

29

Amherst College

Private

30

Duke University

Private

31

Beloit College

Private

32

Bowdoin College

Private

33

Wellesley College

Private

34

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Private

35

Earlham College

Private

36

Franklin and Marshall College

Private

37

Lawrence University

Private

38

University of Rochester

Private

39

University of California-Berkeley

Public

40

Dartmouth College

Private

41

Occidental College

Private

42

Hendrix College

Private

43

Vassar College

Private

44

Trinity University

Private

45

College of William and Mary

Public

46

St John's College (Annapolis, MD)

Private

47

Bates College

Private

48

Whitman College

Private

49

Brandeis University

Private

50

Hampshire College

Private