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Highlights and summary
Admissions
Cost and financial aid
Academics
Student profiles
Campus and location
Religion and other

Highlights and summary

Highlights

Academic strengths range from 9.5 to 9.8

Costs range from $35,500 to $40,200 per year

Sizes range from 5,780 to 25,017 students

Cost and financial aid summary » View more

This table assumes out-of-state tuition for all schools. To show in-state tuition when appropriate, update your location in the top right.

	Avg. cost	Tuition and fees	Scholarships and grants
Cornell (NY)	$40,200	48,100	7,800
Columbia (NY)	$40,100	48,900	8,800
UPenn (PA)	$39,500	48,300	8,700
Brown (RI)	$39,400	48,600	9,200
Yale (CT)	$38,500	48,500	10,000
Dartmouth (NH)	$36,400	48,200	11,800
Princeton (NJ)	$35,800	48,100	12,300
Harvard (MA)	$35,500	48,300	12,800
	Avg. cost	Tuition and fees	Scholarships and grants

Size summary » View more

25,017

Harvard

23,704

UPenn

21,983

Columbia

19,642

Cornell

11,483

Yale

8,261

Brown

6,773

Princeton

5,780

Dartmouth

* Includes both undergraduate and graduate students

Admissions

In this section: Acceptance rates

Acceptance rates

This is the percent of students that applied and were accepted.This can be read, "At Cornell, 27% of all students that applied were accepted."

	Both Genders	Female	Male
Cornell	27	28	27
UPenn	21	22	20
Dartmouth	17	18	16
Brown	15	14	17
Columbia	13	11	15
Princeton	11	11	11
Yale	10	9	11
Harvard	9	9	9
	Both Genders	Female	Male

Cost and financial aid

In this section: Cost breakdown, Endowment

Cost breakdown

This table assumes out-of-state tuition for all schools. To show in-state tuition when appropriate, update your location in the top right.

	Avg. cost	Tuition and fees	Scholarships and grants
Cornell (NY)	$40,200	48,100	7,800
Columbia (NY)	$40,100	48,900	8,800
UPenn (PA)	$39,500	48,300	8,700
Brown (RI)	$39,400	48,600	9,200
Yale (CT)	$38,500	48,500	10,000
Dartmouth (NH)	$36,400	48,200	11,800
Princeton (NJ)	$35,800	48,100	12,300
Harvard (MA)	$35,500	48,300	12,800
	Avg. cost	Tuition and fees	Scholarships and grants

The list is sorted from highest average cost to lowest. Average cost is calculated as average tuition and fees less average scholarships and grants.

These numbers are estimates. Financial aid can vary greatly depending on personal factors such as family income, savings, and academic achievement. For the most accurate information about a given school's financial aid program, contact the school directly using the contact information listed under "Campus" on each school's Collegist page.

Endowment

Endowment per student helps us better understand a school's ability to provide scholarships and grants. Frequently, schools with a large endowment per student will also have large amounts of scholarships and grants available. You may see this correlation using this graph and the one above (Cost breakdown).

Cornell

UPenn

Brown

Columbia

Princeton

Harvard

Dartmouth

Yale

Academics

In this section: Academic strength, Degrees, Popular majors

Academic strength

All eight schools on this list are strong academically. Nationally, five of these schools finish in the top 1% and all eight make the top 5%.

Academic strength is calculated using freshmen SAT and ACT scores, acceptance rates, and other academic and admissions data. 10 is the strongest, 0 the weakest.

9.8

Harvard

9.8

Yale

9.7

Princeton

9.6

UPenn

9.6

Dartmouth

9.6

Columbia

9.5

Brown

9.5

Cornell

Degrees

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	Associate's	Bachelor's	Master's	Doctorate
Brown	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Columbia	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cornell	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dartmouth	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Harvard	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Princeton	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
UPenn	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Yale	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Associate's	Bachelor's	Master's	Doctorate

	L1	L2	A	L3	B	PBC	M	PMC	PhD	FP	FPC	Oth
Brown	N	N	N	N	Y	N	Y	N	Y	Y	N	N
Columbia	N	Y	N	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N
Cornell	N	N	N	N	Y	N	Y	N	Y	Y	N	N
Dartmouth	N	N	N	N	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	N	N
Harvard	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N
Princeton	N	N	N	N	Y	N	Y	N	Y	N	N	N
UPenn	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N
Yale	N	N	N	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N
	L1	L2	A	L3	B	PBC	M	PMC	PhD	FP	FPC	Oth

Complete Degrees Key

Abbreviation	Description
L1	Less than 1 yr.
L2	Between 1 and 2 yrs.
A	Associate's degree
L3	Between 2 and 4 yrs.
B	Bachelor's degree
PBC	Postbaccalaureate certificate

Abbreviation	Description
M	Master's degree
PMC	Post-master's certificate
PhD	Doctorate degree
FP	First-professional degree
FPC	First-professional certificate
Oth	Other

Popular majors

These are the most popular types of majors at each school. Within each of these categories are several specific majors. For instance, Business includes Accounting, Finance, and more business majors.

School	Major category, percent of students
Brown	22% Social sciences
Columbia	14% Engineering 11% Social sciences 10% Economics
Cornell	17% Engineering 16% Business 12% Agricultural 11% Biology
Dartmouth	17% Social sciences 12% Economics 10% History
Harvard	15% Economics 12% Social sciences 10% History
Princeton	17% Engineering 15% Social sciences 11% History 10% Biology
UPenn	24% Business 15% Social sciences
Yale	23% Social sciences 14% History

Campus and Location

In this section: Location

Location

Enter your location in the top right to see the distance to each school.

	City	Distance from home
Yale	New Haven, CT	-
Harvard	Cambridge, MA	-
Dartmouth	Hanover, NH	-
Princeton	Princeton, NJ	-
Columbia	New York, NY	-
Cornell	Ithaca, NY	-
UPenn	Philadelphia, PA	-
Brown	Providence, RI	-
	City	Distance from home

Student profiles

In this section: Size, Gender, Home state, Race, Age

Size

25,017

Harvard

23,704

UPenn

21,983

Columbia

19,642

Cornell

11,483

Yale

8,261

Brown

6,773

Princeton

5,780

Dartmouth

* Includes both undergraduate and graduate students

Gender

	Percent female, percent male
Brown	51	49
UPenn	51	49
Dartmouth	50	50
Harvard	50	50
Cornell	50	50
Yale	48	52
Columbia	47	53
Princeton	46	54
	Percent female, percent male

Home state

Shown as percent of students

	CA	CT	FL	MA	MD	NJ	NY	PA	TX	Other
Brown (RI)	12	4	4	13	0	7	14	4	0	42
Columbia (NY)	Not available
Cornell (NY)	7	0	3	5	3	10	33	6	0	32
Dartmouth (NH)	9	6	4	7	0	6	15	4	0	49
Harvard (MA)	Not available
Princeton (NJ)	13	0	4	0	5	14	11	5	5	42
UPenn (PA)	8	0	3	3	4	12	12	18	0	40
Yale (CT)	16	6	0	6	0	5	12	4	5	46
	CA	CT	FL	MA	MD	NJ	NY	PA	TX	Other

Race

	White	Asian or Pacific	Black	Hispanic	Amer. Indian	Nonres. Alien	Unknown
Brown	4,270	1,003	502	529	41	996	920
Columbia	9,224	2,712	1,222	1,184	63	4,382	3,196
Cornell	9,949	2,665	847	949	85	2,969	2,178
Dartmouth	3,225	676	326	300	140	607	506
Harvard	12,028	3,186	1,547	1,276	151	3,954	2,875
Princeton	3,750	746	458	369	39	1,195	216
UPenn	11,541	3,103	1,393	972	78	3,723	2,894
Yale	5,819	1,288	723	593	63	1,759	1,238
	White	Asian or Pacific	Black	Hispanic	Amer. Indian	Nonres. Alien	Unknown

Age

	Under 18 yrs	18-19	20-21	22-24	25+
Brown	132	2,666	2,749	529	99
Columbia	143	2,531	2,716	871	1,058
Cornell	87	5,444	6,538	1,429	186
Dartmouth	126	1,941	1,755	276	12
Harvard	152	2,941	3,083	533	329
Princeton	81	2,104	2,190	366	11
UPenn	266	4,697	4,931	1,118	1,080
Yale	120	2,417	2,456	338	78
	Under 18 yrs	18-19	20-21	22-24	25+