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Parameters of Excellence: America's Best Universities

Total Total
Teaching focus score Experiential learning score
(25)
(20)
Kettering University 25.0 Kettering University 20.0
United States Air Force Academy 25.0 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 20.0
Amherst College 25.0 United States Air Force Academy 19.5
College of the Atlantic 25.0 College of the Atlantic 19.5
University of Pennsylvania 25.0 Drexel University 19.5
United States Naval Academy 25.0 United States Naval Academy 19.5
United States Military Academy 25.0 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 18.0
Pacific Union College 25.0 Claremont McKenna College 15.0
Patrick Henry College 25.0 University of Washington-Tacoma Campus 15.0
Thomas Aquinas College 25.0 Milwaukee School of Engineering 15.0
Biola University 25.0 Seattle University 15.0
Kenyon College 25.0 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 15.0
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 24.5 The College of New Jersey 15.0
Harvey Mudd College 24.5 Rowan University 15.0
Washington and Lee University 24.5 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 15.0

Total Total
Class size score Economic mobility score
(20) (20)

Thomas Aquinas College 20.0 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 25.0
Alcorn State University 20.0 Mount Saint Mary's University 25.0
La Roche University 20.0 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College 25.0
University of Virginia-Main Campus 19.5 Notre Dame of Maryland University 25.0
Principia College 19.0 New Jersey Institute of Technology 24.0
St. John's College 19.0 University of California-Merced 24.0
Virginia Wesleyan University 19.0 CUNY City College 23.5
Randolph College 19.0 University of La Verne 23.0
The New School 19.0 California State University-Long Beach 23.0
Sweet Briar College 18.5 Mount Carmel College of Nursing 23.0
Hollins University 18.5 University of Illinois Chicago 23.0
Wilkes University 18.5 University of California-Riverside 23.0
Ursuline College 18.5 CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice 22.5
Siena Heights University 18.5 University of California-Irvine 22.5
Washington College 18.0 University of Mount Saint Vincent 22.0

Total Total
Retention rate score Retention rate score
(10) (10)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10.0 Harvard University 10.0
University of Pennsylvania 10.0 University of Chicago 10.0
Rice University 10.0 Northwestern University 10.0
Washington and Lee University 10.0 California Institute of Technology 10.0
Columbia University in the City of New York 10.0 Yale University 10.0
Stanford University 10.0 Brown University 10.0
Dartmouth College 10.0 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 10.0

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