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Welcome to your Custom College Rankings page! Just select the values you want and generate your own personal list of the best colleges and universities for you.

Personalize your college ranking list based on the factors that matter most to you — affordability, test scores, preferred locations, student body size, and of course, the subject you want to study.

Most college rankings are based on what others think is important. Your Custom College Rankings Generator ranks colleges based on what matters to you!

Select the college stats that you care about, and view results based on our unique InfluenceRanking™ engine as well as data from the National Center for Educational Statistics. Once you’ve created your own unique college ranking, you can sort your list using any of our key data points.

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Schools with an median SAT of 400-1600, a median ACT of 1-36, with a graduation rate of greater than 0%, an acceptance rate of greater than 0%, with stated tuition between $0k-$100k offering bachelor degrees, and a student population between 0k-100k, sorted by .

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California Institute of Technology

#27 institution's overall influence

#9 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$52K

Acceptance

Graduation

94%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1555/35

Pasadena, CA

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Harvard University

#1 institution's overall influence

#2 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$50K

Acceptance

Graduation

97%

Student body

25K

Median SAT/ACT

1520/34

Cambridge, MA

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#9 institution's overall influence

#3 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$52K

Acceptance

Graduation

93%

Student body

14K

Median SAT/ACT

1535/35

Cambridge, MA

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Stanford University

#10 institution's overall influence

#1 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$51K

Acceptance

Graduation

94%

Student body

14K

Median SAT/ACT

1495/33

Stanford, CA

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University of Chicago

#5 institution's overall influence

#8 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$57K

Acceptance

Graduation

94%

Student body

12K

Median SAT/ACT

1520/34

Chicago, IL

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Princeton University

#8 institution's overall influence

#5 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$50K

Acceptance

Graduation

97%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1505/33

Princeton, NJ

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Columbia University

#3 institution's overall influence

#6 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$53K

Acceptance

Graduation

95%

Student body

28K

Median SAT/ACT

1505/34

New York, NY

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Yale University

#7 institution's overall influence

#4 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$53K

Acceptance

Graduation

98%

Student body

15K

Median SAT/ACT

1515/34

New Haven, CT

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Johns Hopkins University

#20 institution's overall influence

#21 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$54K

Acceptance

11%

Graduation

92%

Student body

24K

Median SAT/ACT

1505/34

Baltimore, MD

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#10

Duke University

#31 institution's overall influence

#12 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$56K

Acceptance

Graduation

95%

Student body

15K

Median SAT/ACT

1510/34

Durham, NC

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#11

Swarthmore College

#128 institution's overall influence

#22 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$53K

Acceptance

Graduation

94%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1465/32

Swarthmore, PA

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#12

Northwestern University

#28 institution's overall influence

#24 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

Graduation

94%

Student body

19K

Median SAT/ACT

1490/34

Evanston, IL

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#13

Amherst College

#89 institution's overall influence

#26 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$56K

Acceptance

13%

Graduation

93%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1430/32

Amherst, MA

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#14

Rice University

#90 institution's overall influence

#15 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$47K

Acceptance

11%

Graduation

93%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1505/34

Houston, TX

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#15

Carnegie Mellon University

#46 institution's overall influence

#35 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

17%

Graduation

90%

Student body

16K

Median SAT/ACT

1500/34

Pittsburgh, PA

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#16

Cornell University

#14 institution's overall influence

#14 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

11%

Graduation

94%

Student body

24K

Median SAT/ACT

1465/33

Ithaca, NY

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#17

Sarah Lawrence College

#239 institution's overall influence

#1422 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$56K

Acceptance

56%

Graduation

82%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1330/29

Bronxville, NY

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#18

Reed College

#250 institution's overall influence

#79 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$56K

Acceptance

35%

Graduation

78%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1415/31

Portland, OR

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#19

University of Pennsylvania

#17 institution's overall influence

#10 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$56K

Acceptance

Graduation

95%

Student body

27K

Median SAT/ACT

1485/33

Philadelphia, PA

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#20

Brown University

#36 institution's overall influence

#7 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

Graduation

96%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1485/33

Providence, RI

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#21

Barnard College

#125 institution's overall influence

#65 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

14%

Graduation

91%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1415/31

New York, NY

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#22

Antioch University

#195 institution's overall influence

Tuition + fees

$21K

Student body

<1K

Culver City, CA

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#23

Brandeis University

#86 institution's overall influence

#167 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

31%

Graduation

90%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1390/31

Waltham, MA

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#24

University of California, Berkeley

#6 institution's overall influence

#29 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$14K

Acceptance

15%

Graduation

92%

Student body

41K

Median SAT/ACT

1425/33

Berkeley, CA

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#25

Bates College

#317 institution's overall influence

#74 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$54K

Acceptance

18%

Graduation

88%

Student body

<1K

Lewiston, ME

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#26

Wesleyan University

#96 institution's overall influence

#34 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

17%

Graduation

91%

Student body

Middletown, CT

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#27

Graduate Center, CUNY

#511 institution's overall influence

Tuition + fees

$7K

Student body

New York, NY

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#28

Vassar College

#139 institution's overall influence

#88 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$57K

Acceptance

25%

Graduation

91%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1440/32

Poughkeepsie, NY

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#29

Hampshire College

#432 institution's overall influence

#955 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$52K

Acceptance

63%

Graduation

65%

Student body

Amherst, MA

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#30

Dartmouth College

#55 institution's overall influence

#11 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

Graduation

97%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1490/33

Hanover, NH

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#31

Georgetown University

#70 institution's overall influence

#19 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$54K

Acceptance

15%

Graduation

94%

Student body

14K

Median SAT/ACT

1450/32

Washington, DC

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#32

Tufts University

#69 institution's overall influence

#25 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$56K

Acceptance

15%

Graduation

92%

Student body

11K

Median SAT/ACT

1455/32

Medford, MA

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#33

Wellesley College

#133 institution's overall influence

#33 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$54K

Acceptance

20%

Graduation

91%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1425/32

Wellesley, MA

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#34

Williams College

#151 institution's overall influence

#27 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

13%

Graduation

94%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1480/33

Williamstown, MA

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#35

Cooper Union

#312 institution's overall influence

#62 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$47K

Acceptance

16%

Graduation

90%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1396/32

New York, NY

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#36

Pomona College

#279 institution's overall influence

#13 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$53K

Acceptance

Graduation

97%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1470/32

Claremont, CA

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#37

Oberlin College

#119 institution's overall influence

#114 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

36%

Graduation

85%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1385/30

Oberlin, OH

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#38

Bryn Mawr College

#181 institution's overall influence

#119 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$52K

Acceptance

34%

Graduation

83%

Student body

Bryn Mawr, PA

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#39

Bennington College

#453 institution's overall influence

#1445 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$54K

Acceptance

57%

Graduation

70%

Student body

<1K

Bennington, VT

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#40

Yeshiva University

#212 institution's overall influence

#136 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$44K

Acceptance

60%

Graduation

82%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1270/26

New York, NY

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#41

New York University

#16 institution's overall influence

#44 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$52K

Acceptance

20%

Graduation

85%

Student body

47K

Median SAT/ACT

1410/31

New York, NY

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#42

Bard College

#300 institution's overall influence

#998 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

65%

Graduation

78%

Student body

Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

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#43

Haverford College

#319 institution's overall influence

#73 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$55K

Acceptance

19%

Graduation

90%

Student body

Median SAT/ACT

1450/33

Haverford, PA

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#44

Harvey Mudd College

#645 institution's overall influence

#28 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$57K

Acceptance

14%

Graduation

93%

Student body

<1K

Median SAT/ACT

1525/34

Claremont, CA

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#45

Washington University in St. Louis

#61 institution's overall influence

#20 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$53K

Acceptance

15%

Graduation

94%

Student body

12K

Median SAT/ACT

1520/33

Saint Louis, MO

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#46

Vanderbilt University

#115 institution's overall influence

#16 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$50K

Acceptance

10%

Graduation

92%

Student body

11K

Median SAT/ACT

1505/34

Nashville, TN

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#47

George Washington University

#62 institution's overall influence

#76 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$53K

Acceptance

42%

Graduation

84%

Student body

21K

Median SAT/ACT

1370/30

Washington, DC

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#48

Smith College

#157 institution's overall influence

#111 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$52K

Acceptance

31%

Graduation

89%

Student body

Northampton, MA

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#49

University of Michigan

#15 institution's overall influence

#37 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$16K

Acceptance

23%

Graduation

91%

Student body

42K

Median SAT/ACT

1420/32

Ann Arbor, MI

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#50

The New School

#95 institution's overall influence

#1438 overall school desirability

Tuition + fees

$49K

Acceptance

57%

Graduation

68%

Student body

10K

Median SAT/ACT

1255/27

New York, NY

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