Kiplinger’s rankings based on quality and financial measures for 2016:
Top 50 Private Universities:
- Princeton
- Harvard
- Vanderbilt
- Rice
- Yale
- Duke
- Cal-T
- MIT
- Stanford
- Emory
- Dartmouth
- Brown
- UPENN
- Cornell
- Northwestern
Top Private, LAC, & Public:
- W&L
- Princeton
- Harvard
- Davidson
- Swarthmore
- Vanderbilt
- Rice
- Pomona
- Yale
- UNC
- Duke
- Kenyon
- Williams
- Wesleyan
- Cal-T