Best U.S. Universities

Can you name the best universities in the United States?

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#	School	State (or DC)
1	Princeton	New Jersey
2	MIT	Massachusetts
3	Harvard	Massachusetts
4 (tie)	Stanford	California
4 (tie)	Yale	Connecticut
6	Chicago	Illinois
7 (tie)	Duke	North Carolina
	Johns Hopkins	Maryland
	Northwestern	Illinois
	Penn	Pennsylvania
11	Cal Tech	California
12	Cornell	New York
13 (tie)	Brown	Rhode Island
13 (tie)	Dartmouth	New Hampshire
15 (tie)	Columbia	New York
15 (tie)	California-Berkeley	California
17 (tie)	Rice	Texas
	UCLA	California
	Vanderbilt	Tennessee
20 (tie)	Carnegie Mellon	Pennsylvania
	Michigan	Michigan
	Notre Dame	Indiana
	Washington (St. Louis)	Missouri
24 (tie)	Emory	Georgia
24 (tie)	Georgetown	DC
26 (tie)	North Carolina	North Carolina
26 (tie)	Virginia	Virginia
28 (tie)	USC	California
28 (tie)	UC San Diego	California
30 (tie)	Florida	Florida
30 (tie)	Texas	Texas
32 (tie)	Georgia Tech	Georgia
	NYU	New York
	UC Davis	California
	UC Irvine	California
36 (tie)	Boston College	Massachusetts
	Tufts	Massachusetts
	Illinois	Illinois
	Wisconsin	Wisconsin
40	UC Santa Barbara	California
41	Ohio State	Ohio
42 (tie)	Boston University	Massachusetts
	Rutgers	New Jersey
	Maryland	Maryland
	Washington	Washington
46 (tie)	Lehigh	Pennsylvania
	Northeastern	Massachusetts
	Purdue	Indiana
	Georgia	Georgia
	Rochester	New York

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