Highly Selective Colleges

Based on current data, these are the most highly selective colleges and universities in the US.

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Minerva University

San Francisco, California
  • Tuition: $16,450
  • Acceptance Rate: 1.02%
  • School Size: 642 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Social Sciences, General
  • Business Administration and Management, General
  • Humanities/Humanistic Studies
  • Natural Sciences

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California
  • Tuition: $58,680
  • Acceptance Rate: 3.92%
  • School Size: 2,379 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physics, General
  • Mathematics, General
  • Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Stanford University

Stanford, California
  • Tuition: $56,169
  • Acceptance Rate: 3.95%
  • School Size: 19,309 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Human Biology
  • Engineering, Other
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • Engineering/Industrial Management

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Tuition: $55,587
  • Acceptance Rate: 4.01%
  • School Size: 39,981 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Social Sciences, General
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • Computer Science
  • Applied Mathematics, General
  • Political Science and Government, General

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Tuition: $55,878
  • Acceptance Rate: 4.11%
  • School Size: 12,217 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mathematics, General
  • Physics, General
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, New York
  • Tuition: $62,466
  • Acceptance Rate: 4.13%
  • School Size: 33,720 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • Political Science and Government, General
  • Research and Experimental Psychology, Other
  • Social Sciences, Other

Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey
  • Tuition: $56,010
  • Acceptance Rate: 4.38%
  • School Size: 7,942 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Public Policy Analysis, General
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • Political Science and Government, General
  • Operations Research

Curtis Institute of Music

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Tuition: $5,015
  • Acceptance Rate: 4.80%
  • School Size: 146 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Music Performance, General
  • Music Theory and Composition

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut
  • Tuition: $59,950
  • Acceptance Rate: 5.31%
  • School Size: 13,555 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • History, General
  • Political Science and Government, General
  • Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island
  • Tuition: $62,304
  • Acceptance Rate: 5.51%
  • School Size: 10,446 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • Applied Mathematics, General
  • Biology/Biological Sciences, General
  • Political Science and Government, General