| Rank |
Name |
State |
Cost |
Freshman Class Size |
| 1 |
Williams College |
MA |
49,530 |
2,072 |
| 2 |
Princeton University |
NJ |
49,830 |
7,330 |
| 3 |
Amherst College |
MA |
50,230 |
1,697 |
| 4 |
United States Military Academy |
NY |
0 |
4,553 |
| 5 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MA |
50,100 |
10,299 |
| 6 |
Stanford University |
CA |
51,760 |
17,833 |
| 7 |
Swarthmore College |
PA |
50,381 |
1,490 |
| 8 |
Harvard University |
MA |
50,250 |
26,496 |
| 9 |
Claremont McKenna College |
CA |
50,990 |
1,212 |
| 10 |
Yale University |
CT |
51,400 |
10,192 |
| 11 |
United States Air Force Academy |
CO |
0 |
4,537 |
| 12 |
Wellesley College |
MA |
50,026 |
2,498 |
| 13 |
Columbia University |
NY |
51,406 |
23,196 |
| 14 |
Haverford College |
PA |
51,637 |
1,169 |
| 15 |
Wesleyan University |
CT |
51,935 |
3,149 |
| 16 |
Whitman College |
WA |
46,212 |
1,458 |
| 17 |
Pomona College |
CA |
49,745 |
1,532 |
| 18 |
Northwestern University |
IL |
52,120 |
19,291 |
| 19 |
California Institute of Technology |
CA |
48,990 |
2,126 |
| 20 |
University of Chicago |
IL |
53,310 |
14,788 |
| 21 |
Carleton College |
MN |
50,000 |
1,983 |
| 22 |
Harvey Mudd College |
CA |
50,073 |
738 |
| 23 |
Vassar College |
NY |
51,370 |
2,389 |
| 24 |
Centre College |
KY |
39,200 |
1,197 |
| 25 |
Rice University |
TX |
43,586 |
5,357 26 |
| 26 |
Middlebury College |
VT |
52,460 |
2,455 |
| 27 |
Boston College |
MA |
52,060 |
14,836 |
| 28 |
Colgate University |
NY |
51,090 |
2,844 |
| 29 |
United States Naval Academy |
MD |
1,000 |
4,488 |
| 30 |
Dartmouth College |
NH |
50,547 |
5,848 |
| 31 |
Colby College |
ME |
50,120 |
1,847 |
| 32 |
Kenyon College |
OH |
49,260 |
1,644 |
| 33 |
University of Notre Dame |
IN |
49,030 |
11,731 |
| 34 |
Tufts University |
MA |
51,400 |
10,030 |
| 35 |
Smith College |
MA |
50,588 |
3,101 |
| 36 |
University of Pennsylvania |
PA |
51,299 |
24,107 |
| 37 |
Washington and Lee University |
VA |
49,268 |
2,155 |
| 38 |
Bryn Mawr College |
PA |
50,060 |
1,745 |
| 39 |
College of the Holy Cross |
MA |
49,102 |
2,898 |
| 40 |
Bowdoin College |
ME |
50,570 |
1,723 |
| 41 |
Duke University |
NC |
50,925 |
14,060 |
| 42 |
Wabash College |
IN |
37,750 |
911 |
| 43 |
Vanderbilt University |
TN |
52,303 |
12,093 |
| 44 |
University of Virginia |
VA |
40,709 |
24,541 |
| 45 |
Brown University |
RI |
50,560 |
8,318 |
| 46 |
College of William and Mary |
VA |
39,886 |
7,892 |
| 47 |
Rhodes College |
TN |
43,680 |
1,678 |
| 48 |
Davidson College |
NC |
45,725 |
1,668 |
| 49 |
Union College |
NY |
50,060 |
2,240 |
| 50 |
Lawrence University |
WI |
42,301 |
1,496 |
