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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: $17,562
  • Acceptance Rate: 1.00%
  • School Size: 636 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Business Administration and Management, General
  • Social Sciences, General
  • Humanities/Humanistic Studies
  • Natural Sciences

Fairfax University of America

Fairfax, Virginia
  • Tuition: $10,128
  • Acceptance Rate: 1.06%
  • School Size: 32 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Business Administration and Management, General

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California
  • Tuition: $60,864
  • Acceptance Rate: 2.69%
  • School Size: 2,501 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physics, General
  • Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Chemistry, General

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Tuition: $57,261
  • Acceptance Rate: 3.24%
  • School Size: 39,374 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Social Sciences, General
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • Computer Science
  • Political Science and Government, General
  • Applied Mathematics, General

Stanford University

Stanford, California
  • Tuition: $58,416
  • Acceptance Rate: 3.68%
  • School Size: 20,490 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Human Biology
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • Engineering, Other
  • Political Science and Government, General

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, New York
  • Tuition: $65,508
  • Acceptance Rate: 3.95%
  • School Size: 37,368 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
  • History, General

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Tuition: $57,986
  • Acceptance Rate: 3.96%
  • School Size: 12,923 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Computer Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mathematics, General
  • Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut
  • Tuition: $62,250
  • Acceptance Rate: 4.57%
  • School Size: 15,828 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • Political Science and Government, General
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General
  • History, General
  • Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island
  • Tuition: $65,046
  • Acceptance Rate: 5.06%
  • School Size: 11,151 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
  • International Relations and Affairs

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
  • Tuition: $62,940
  • Acceptance Rate: 5.43%
  • School Size: 20,814 Students
  • School Type: Private, not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Most Popular Undergraduate Majors
  • Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
  • Mathematics, General
  • Biology/Biological Sciences, General
  • Computer Science
  • Public Policy Analysis, General