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	Harvard	Cambridge, Massachusetts	3.6%	1500-1580	34-36	7,200	~13 est.	private	View
#2	Columbia	New York, New York	3.9%	1490-1570	33-35	8,800	~13 est.	private	View
#3	MIT	Cambridge, Massachusetts	4.5%	1530-1580	35-36	4,600	~8 est.	private	View
#4	University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	4.6%	1510-1580	34-35	7,500	~11 est.	private	View
#5	UPenn	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	5.4%	1490-1560	33-35	10,300	~13 est.	private	View
#6	Brown	Providence, Rhode Island	5.4%	1500-1570	34-35	7,300	~13 est.	private	View
#7	Barnard	New York, New York	8.0%	1430-1540	31-34	2,700	~24 est.	private	View
#8	Northeastern	Boston, Massachusetts	5.5%	1430-1540	33-35	16,000	~29 est.	private	View
#9	Vanderbilt	Nashville, Tennessee	5.6%	1480-1560	33-35	7,100	~15 est.	private	View
#10	Rice	Houston, Texas	7.7%	1490-1560	34-35	4,500	~13 est.	private	View
#11	NYU	New York, New York	8.0%	1450-1540	32-34	29,000	~20 est.	private	View
#12	UCLA	Los Angeles, California	8.6%	—	—	33,000	~40 est.	public	View
#13	USC	Los Angeles, California	9.0%	1450-1530	32-35	21,000	~20 est.	private	View
#14	Carnegie Mellon	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	11.0%	1490-1560	33-35	7,500	~13 est.	private	View
#15	Georgetown	Washington, District of Columbia	11.0%	1410-1530	32-35	7,500	~24 est.	private	View
#16	Tulane	New Orleans, Louisiana	11.0%	1370-1500	31-33	8,500	~20 est.	private	View
#17	UC Berkeley	Berkeley, California	11.5%	—	—	33,000	~40 est.	public	View
#18	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Georgia	16.0%	1430-1530	32-35	18,000	~40 est.	public	View
#19	Boston University	Boston, Massachusetts	11.0%	1390-1500	31-34	17,600	~24 est.	private	View
#20	University of Miami	Coral Gables, Florida	19.0%	1340-1480	30-33	12,000	~24 est.	private	View
#21	UC Irvine	California	21.0%	—	—	31,000	~40 est.	public	View
#22	Macalester	Saint Paul, Minnesota	26.0%	1370-1490	31-33	2,200	~22 est.	private	View
#23	Reed	Portland, Oregon	27.0%	1390-1530	31-34	1,500	~20 est.	private	View
#24	UC San Diego	California	28.6%	—	—	33,000	~42 est.	public	View
#25	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, Texas	29.0%	1240-1460	27-33	40,000	~40 est.	public	View
#26	Trinity College	Hartford, Connecticut	38.0%	1300-1430	29-32	2,200	~20 est.	private	View
#27	University of Washington	Seattle, Washington	43.0%	1240-1430	27-33	36,000	~44 est.	public	View
#28	Stevens Institute	Hoboken, New Jersey	47.0%	1380-1510	31-33	4,000	~24 est.	private	View
#29	University of Wisconsin	Madison, Wisconsin	49.0%	1310-1450	27-32	35,000	~37 est.	public	View
#30	GWU	Washington, District of Columbia	49.0%	1310-1450	29-33	12,000	~29 est.	private	View
#31	SMU	Texas	52.0%	1380-1500	31-34	7,000	~24 est.	private	View
#32	Cal State Long Beach	Long Beach, California	42.0%	1090-1290	21-28	33,000	~53 est.	public	View
#33	TCU	Texas	46.0%	1200-1400	26-31	11,000	~31 est.	private	View
#34	American University	Washington, District of Columbia	49.0%	1280-1430	28-32	8,000	~26 est.	private	View
#35	Fordham	Bronx, New York	53.0%	1300-1430	29-32	10,000	~33 est.	private	View
#36	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis, Minnesota	70.0%	1280-1450	26-32	36,000	~37 est.	public	View
#37	Drexel	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	77.0%	1180-1380	25-31	14,000	~26 est.	private	View
#38	Temple	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	80.0%	1170-1340	24-30	24,000	~31 est.	public	View
#39	University of Hawaii Manoa	Honolulu, Hawaii	58.0%	1080-1280	22-27	13,000	~29 est.	public	View
#40	San Jose State	San Jose, California	70.0%	1100-1330	21-29	29,000	~53 est.	public	View
#41	University of Houston	Houston, Texas	70.0%	1100-1290	21-27	37,000	~46 est.	public	View
#42	University of Arizona	Tucson, Arizona	86.0%	1110-1320	21-28	35,000	~44 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	88.0%	1130-1340	23-29	75,000	~42 est.	public	View