<p>In looking at the quantitative factors that USNWR considers for its annual ranking, four categories directly relate to the undergraduate experience that a student will enjoy and the institution’s actions and resources to support and complete that experience. Those categories are Graduation & Retention Rank, Faculty Resources Rank, Selectivity Rank, and Financial Resources Rank. The following ranks the schools by the combined results in these four categories (all equally weighted):</p>
<p>1 Harvard 13 points (1st in G&R, 3rd in Fac Res, 1st in Selectivity, and 8th in Fin'l Res)
2 Yale 13
3 Princeton 21
4 U Penn 24
5 Cal Tech 29
6 MIT 30
7 Wash U StL 33
8 Duke 35
9 Stanford 36
10 Columbia 43
11 Dartmouth 44
12 Northwestern 48
13 U Chicago 58
13 Brown 58
15 Rice 65
16 Cornell 66
17 Emory 68
18 Vanderbilt 81
19 Notre Dame 82
20 J Hopkins 85
21 Tufts 95
22 Georgetown 97
23 Carnegie Mellon 105
24 Wake Forest 107
25 UCLA 115
26 UC Berkeley 118
27 USC 122
28 U Rochester 124
29 U Virginia 131
30 Lehigh 132
31 Case Western 137
32 U North Carolina 141
32 Brandeis 141
34 NYU 141
35 U Michigan 150
36 Yeshiva 158
37 UC SD 172
38 Tulane 185
39 Rensselaer 187
40 Boston College 191
41 UC Irvine 193
42 W & M 199
43 U Miami FL 208
44 U Wisconsin 209
45 Pepperdine 211
46 Georgia Tech 212
47 U Illinois UC 220
48 UC S Barbara 224
49 UC Davis 239
50 Boston Univ 241</p>