Top 20 U.S. colleges of 2013

Published: Sep 13 2011 03:14:05 PM EDT Updated On: Dec 14 2012 02:00:00 AM EST

U.S. News & World Report releases its annual list of the best U.S. colleges. Did your alma mater make the cut?

Colleges - Generic — 1 / 22

U.S. News & World Report has released its annual list of the best colleges, weighing factors such as tuition, enrollment, acceptance rate, freshman retention rate, graduation rate, class size and SAT/ACT percentiles.

Colleges - Generic

Colleges - Emory

Colleges - Notre Dame

Colleges - Vanderbilt

Colleges - Rice

Colleges - Cornell

Colleges - Brown

Colleges - Washington

Colleges - Johns Hopkins

Colleges - Northwestern

Colleges - Dartmouth

Colleges - CIT

Colleges - Pennsylvania

Colleges - Duke

Colleges - Stanford

Colleges - MIT

Colleges - Chicago

Colleges - Columbia

Colleges - Yale

Colleges - Princeton

Colleges - Harvard

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